"People are my favourite subject because there are no two alike, so my work never becomes routine."
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Robert Frank interview in: Tom Ang (2010), The Complete Photographer, p. 43
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Robert Frank
(November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society.
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