an election day interview by Will Steacy Will Steacy and Zoe Strauss spent much of their Election Day together in their mutual home town of Philadelphia, visiting polls, shooting photographs and recording the following interview...

from Jerome Poynton In 1947 Robert Frank arrived in New York from Switzerland with his camera. His first photo job was shooting Moe, Larry and Curly – The Three Stooges – on a bus tour from high school to high school in Queens...

by Walker Evans Walker Evan's prescient essay on his friend Robert Frank, reproduced here in its entirety...

We asked a group of photographers and writers to share their personal stories about Frank and his masterpiece, here are their responses...

from Karl Baden & Covering Photography Robert Franks' photographs are seminal works of art that are rarely seen outside of his own monographs or exhibitions. Karl Baden has researched the appropriation of Franks' photographs as book covers and has published his findings on the phenomenal website Covering Photography.

from Jeff Ladd It was fifty years ago that the greatest book of photography ever published made its appearance. To celebrate this occasion on May 15th, the same day that the first edition of Les Americans was published in France in 1958, Steidl and DAP planned an evening with Robert Frank at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade movie theater in New York City...