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Robert Frank's The Americans

How a Swiss émigré's cross-country road trip changed photography.

Click here to read a slide-show essay about the photography of Robert Frank.

Click here to read a slide-show essay about the photography of Robert Frank.

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Fred Kaplan is Slate's "War Stories" columnist and author of the book, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War. He can be reached at war_stories@hotmail.com. Follow him on Twitter.