The Detroit Institute of Arts has brought another great exhibit to the Motor City, and this time with some Detroit flair. Swiss photographer Robert Frank went on the road. He visited 12 cities in 1955, one of which was Detroit. Those Detroit photos make up the DIA's latest attraction.
Excerpt from
Cool Huntings:
Almost a decade after emigrating to the United States in the '40s, Swiss
photographer
Robert Frank decided to document the reality of his
adopted country's then-current condition—a nation as he saw it obsessed
with money and struggling with the divisions among race and class. Of
the 12 cities he visited in 1955, the particularly moving images of
Detroit make up the current exhibit at the
Detroit Institute of Arts.
Frank spent several days exploring the Motor City, visiting the Ford
Motor Company River Rouge plant in the suburb of Dearborn, as well as
the Gratiot Drive-In, and Belle Isle park. Capturing images of classic
mid-century American life with his Leica camera, Frank compiled the
pictures along with others from his journey in a groundbreaking
photography book titled "The Americans" in 1958.
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