Robert Frank is a very famous Swiss photographer and film maker who’s career in photography started in the 1940’s. Frank is most well known for his book ‘The Americans’ published in 1958. The book features a sequence of images taken throughout America showing the irony of everyday American life. Frank’s book ‘The Americans’ was so revolutionary because it changed the documentary photography’s previous traditions. Robert Frank changed the game in documentary photography by not letting his feelings and emotions affect the work he was photographing, un like previous photographers. Robert Frank is an inspiration for me in my image making project because his documentary photography work is looked up to by most photographers.

Frank photographed his subjects in a way in which had never been done before, always adding a metaphor within his photographs. I can take inspiration from Robert Frank by really looking at my surroundings and relating the location around me to the subject I am photographing. During this project I am going to use Robert Franks work as inspiration by using the irony of everyday life and using that to my advantage when I take photographs.