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Jonathan Day: Postcards from the Road

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An image from the exhibition.
John Batten

Until May 28

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Robert Frank's photographic road journey through America, The Americans, was published in 1959. For two years, Frank shot 500 rolls of film, then pared the final selection into an initially small-run black-and-white photo book with an introduction by Jack Kerouac, who described this classic as if Frank had "sucked a sad poem out of America onto film".

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Frank's combination of seemingly casual and tightly framed images has influenced generations of photographers. British photographer Jonathan Day recently followed a comparable US road journey and this exhibition and accompanying book follow Frank's original photographs alongside Day's contemporary equivalent.

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