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I am excited to say that I have one extremely exciting event to add to my calendar for next fall. 

The Met is showing work from Robert Frank’s book/series The Americans from September 22–December 27, 2009.

This exhibition will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert Frank’s elegiac suite of black-and-white photographs made on a cross-country road trip as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1955–56. The show will feature all 83 photographs published in the compact volume that became one of the medium’s most influential publications. In addition, the exhibition will include a full set of contact sheets, the artist’s earlier essays in sequencing photographs, and his later reuse of iconic images from the series.

I’m so excited for this.  I’ve never seen his work on display and in person, so this should be really great.  Also, after my recent road trip, I’m even more excited to look at images from the same kind of situation - photos of Americans from one coast to the other, but from one of my favorite photographers.