One hundred years of Robert Frank

The Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank was born 100 years ago today. In 1955, Frank received a Guggenheim Fellowship and used the money to travel across the United States and photograph the people and places he found there. The book that resulted, The Americans, redefined what photography could be. Decades later, its 83 photographs fundamentally altered my understanding of what it meant for me to be a photographer. The book gave me a goal to strive for that I'll certainly never achieve. But I hope I'll never stop trying.