Robert Frank’s The Americans, published in 1959 with an introduction by Jack Kerouac, has come to be hugely symbolic of mid-twentieth-century life in the United States. His photographs, which spanned documentary, diaristic and photographic road movie styles, were first shown in Germany in 1985. Now, they are returning to the country, with an expansive show at C/O Berlin which will bring together contact sheets, first editions and vintage material. “Oblique angles, cropped figures and blurred movement became the hallmarks of a new photographic style that would change the course of postwar photography,” says the gallery. The show opens on 12 September, spanning his time in Switzerland, his travels through Europe and South America, unpublished work from the US and his classic images from The Americans.
