Robert Frank changed photography and helped us to see New York and the rest of the country with fresh eyes.

Here is an excerpt from another “profile of courage” that appeared in The New York Times, in this instance written by Nicholas Dawidoff. To read the complete article as well as others, please click here.

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Louis Silverstein was looking at a series of photographs of business travelers published in the November 1955 issue of Fortune magazine and thought the pictures lent such uncanny expression to men talking, reading and revising that he decided the photographer had been “lucky.” Fortune’s photography editor, the seminal photographer Walker Evans, had assigned his protégé, Robert Frank, to accompany the deal makers and politicians aboard the Congressional, a New York-to-Washington train known as the “mobile executive suite.” Silverstein was The New York Times’s promotion art director, and despite his skepticism, he reached for his telephone and invited Frank to come see him.

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Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of five books.