Photography After Frank - Philip Gefter

Didn't read the essays, just looked at the pictures.  What I found interesting is how the photographers in this collection generally seem to have focused on one aspect of the innovations that Frank brought to photography.  Some work with his more formal aspects relating to composition, placing of subjects, tonalities.  Some focus on his people as subjects, the slightly off-centre collection of people with an edge of the grotesque.  Some work with his landscape sense, the everyday, the small, the anti-monumental of people's lives and the landscape of americana.  Some focus on the slightly mysterious candid shot of people going about some private social activity, the candid moment, again slightly grotesque.  It isn't until I see all these different threads spread out amongst different photographers and their work that I realize how complex Frank's book, The Americans, really is.