Photographer Robert Frank dies, author of the famous book 'The Americans'

• He toured 46 states. Robert Frank's silent America

Robert Frank (Switzerland, 1924), a pioneer documentary photographer whose crude style placed him among the greats of the twentieth century, has died this Monday in Canada, as published by 'The New York Times'. He was 94 years old.

The photographer, who emigrated to the US in 1947, rose to fame with the publication of his historic 1958 book 'The Americans', an unshakable look at American society, considered one of the most influential graphic works from the second half of the twentieth century.

Robert Frank in a 2014 image.

Denounced for being "antipatriot" and "showing a disillusioned view of the United States," according to Frank himself, 'The Americans' consists of 84 photographs that reflect class differences and racism in a sector of American society, in contrast With the image of widespread prosperity.

The countercultural nature of his work brought Frank some writers of the 'beat' generation like Jack Kerouac (who signed the prologue of 'The Americans'), Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky, artists with whom he made works of form joint.

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