The Americans (photography)
The Americans is a photographic book by Robert Frank which was highly influential in post-war American photography. It was first published in France in 1958, and the following year in the United States. The photographs were notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society. The book as a whole created a complicated portrait of the period that was viewed as skeptical of contemporary values and evocative of ubiquitous loneliness. "Frank set out with his Guggenheim Grant to do something new and unconstrained by commercial diktats" and made "a now classic photography book in the iconoclastic spirit of the Beats".
The Americans, 1969 2nd printing
The Americans, 1997 6th printing (3rd Scalo edition)
A road trip, sometimes spelled roadtrip, is a long-distance journey traveled by automobile.
Historic Route 66 in New Mexico, USA
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Number 3 of 1888, used by Bertha Benz for the highly publicized first long-distance road trip by automobile (of over 106 km / 60 miles)
Jackson driving the Vermont on the 1903 cross-country drive
Pie Town gas station and garage in 1940