National Gallery Of Art | Audio

An American Journey

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February 2009, Art Talk - Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Philippe S�clier, filmmaker. Fifty years after the publication of The Americans, French filmmaker Philippe S�clier retraced Robert Frank's journey through the United States in 1955 and 1956. Working with only a small digital camera, S�clier explores the legacy of the 1950s and the impact of the book on photography and culture in this 15,000-mile odyssey through present-day America. In this podcast, Greenough and S�clier discuss his tribute, four years in the making, to the renowned photographer.