Trolley - New Orleans, 1955 by Robert Frank

'Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected'. Robert Frank

Meet Robert Frank. In 1955 he traveled across his new adopted home, America and photographed what he saw. Coming from a Jewish family which survived the second World War in Europe and lived to dream the nightmares, he was certainly equipped with an empathic eye. With the push of a button the American dream was shattered and a realism ensued. Frank captured all levels of society, giving a hugely refreshing insight into the often bleak and lonely existence of America's citizens who were living in an increasingly consumer driven society. This photograph, taken in New Orleans captured the segregation of white and blacks on public transport from an interesting angle; from the outside looking in.