Robert Frank was a swiss photographer that was well known for photographing an outsiders view of America. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland on November 9th, 1924. He died in Inverness, Canada on September 9th, 2019.
This image is from Frank's book The Americans. A reoccurring theme throughout the book is the use of American flags, and I don't care much for the flag as an American, so I decided to go with a more subtle image. I really like this one because all of the identifiable people in the image are women. Knowing that this series was taken in the 1950's, I would not expect women to be in the forefront of an image. The way they are lined up and the posture each person holds signifies empowerment. Each woman is also holding a different facial expression, but they all seem to be confident. This image appears to be candid, almost as if the women wouldn't stop what they were doing for a photographer. That makes me think that they were expressing that they value their time. I think that this image is a symbol of women's empowerment even if they were still treated as lesser than men.
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