America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb, 1955

$50.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by Lisa Volpe (Author), Susan Straight (Afterword)In 1955 two photographers were awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to embark on trips across the United States. Robert Frank (1924–2019) drove coast to coast, photographing the highways, bars, and people that formed the basis for his widely admired publication The Americans (1958). Todd Webb (1905–2000) walked, boated, and biked across the country, searching for “vanishing Americana and what is taking its place.”Unaware of each other’s…