A fiftieth-anniversary exhibition of Robert Frank's celebrated The Americans opened this week at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Reviewing the exhibition in the New York Times, Holland Cotter finds it still relevant today. "In the nominally post-racial Obama era, its political urgencies feel less immediate than they once did, but also prophetic. Its mournful tenderness, without being sentimental, seems deeper than ever." Robert Frank served as the judge for the third annual Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. He chose Danny Wilcox Frazier as the winner and Duke Press was proud to publish Driftless: Photographs from Iowa in conjunction with CDS Books. Robert Frank wrote a foreword for the book, praising Frazier's "passionate photographs without sentimentality. His work reaches out: let me tell your story, it is important. Frazier’s work will survive—his book will be the foundation for more to come. . . ."
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