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The New York Times reviews the Irving Penn Centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art …

I’m sure I can speak for many of us in citing Robert Frank’s “The Americans” as one of our most influential and important photo works, and is a book, published in the late 1950s, that has occupied a prominent place on my bookshelf and in my mind for many, many years.  Now, The New Yorker tells us of the publication of “The Americans List II,” by Jason Eskenazi, who gathered responses from a variety of photographers to an exhibit of Frank’s work, choosing their particular favorites.