Group of Coal Miners, Wales
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Robert Frank is internationally renowned for photography and film-making, and widely recognized for his publication of The Americans in 1959. The publication is a collection of 83 black-and-white photographs taken during Frank's two years of travel across America, funded by a Guggenheim grant. He was originally born in Switzerland in 1924, and emigrated to the United States at age 23. Frank only began doing films in the late 1950s, including a documentary of the Rolling Stones' 1973 North American tour. Since 1969, Frank has lived in Mabou, Cape Breton.