Graveyard before village--Santa Fe, New Mexico 1955

"Graveyard before village--Santa Fe, New Mexico" is a photograph taken by Robert Frank in 1955. It is part of his iconic book, "The Americans," which documented the social and cultural landscape of America in the 1950s. This particular photograph shows a sparsely populated graveyard on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico, capturing the desolate beauty of the American southwest. The photograph's stark composition and black-and-white tonality enhance the sense of loneliness and isolation, characteristic of Frank's "The Americans" project.