This 2009 NPR story about Robert Frank and his book of photographs The Americans is also interesting: http://www.npr.org/2009/02/13/100688154/americans-the-boo

This 2009 NPR story about Robert Frank and his book of photographs The Americans is also interesting: http://www.npr.org/2009/02/13/100688154/americans-the-book-that-changed-photography http://www.npr.org/2009/02/13/100688154/americans-the-book-t... "The Americans showed a different America than the wholesome, nonconfrontational photo essays offered in some popular magazines. Frank's subjects weren't necessarily living the American dream of the 1950s: They were factory workers in Detroit, transvestites in New York, black passengers on a segregated trolley in New Orleans. Frank didn't even get much support from the art world, he recalls. "'The Museum of Modern Art wouldn't even sell the book,' Frank says. 'But the younger people caught on.'"