"The Sad Genius of American Photography"

"Yet we do remember–and revere–what he saw and what he achieved with The Americans. Through his deep looking, he taught us how to see the world anew, without sentiment or illusion. His alert and unforgiving gaze showed many Americans what was right under their noses yet invisible to them. It was, in retrospect, a wake-up call but, more than that, a beautiful, if bleakly poetic, vision of modern America, as evocative and unrelenting in its way as any novel or poem by Philip Roth or Saul Bellow."

Sean O'Hagan at The Guardian writes an appreciation of Robert Frank.