Man in automobile--Los Angeles 1956

"Man in Automobile--Los Angeles" is a 1956 photograph by Robert Frank, a Swiss-American photographer known for his photobooks and candid street photography. The image captures a man wearing a hat and a light-colored shirt in the driver's seat of a car, taken from a low angle looking up. The composition is simple and the image is in black and white, emphasizing the stark contrast between the man and his environment. This photograph is one of the many iconic images from Frank's book "The Americans," which is considered a landmark work of photojournalism and is widely celebrated for its honest and unflinching portrayal of American society in the 1950s.