Guggenheim 734--Des Moines and Iowa City, Iowa 1956

"Guggenheim 734--Des Moines and Iowa City, Iowa" is a 1956 contact sheet by Robert Frank. Contact sheets are an important part of the photographic process, showing uncropped images from a roll of film. This contact sheet, with its various images of people in Iowa, is part of Frank's iconic series, *The Americans*, a photobook that revolutionized documentary photography by offering a candid and sometimes critical look at American society in the 1950s.