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title: "Distance becomes closeness. Gauri Gill’s “The Americans”"
date: 2022-11-07
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/distance-becomes-closeness-gauri-gills-the-americans-gauri-gill-2022-context-en/"
description: "One title, two works: With her photo series “The Americans” Gauri Gill references the 1950s photo book of the same name by Swiss photographer Robert Frank. A comparison shows that Robert Frank’s distanced gaze has given way in Gauri Gill’s images to an insight into the private realm."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Header_neu_Schirn_Presse_Gauri_Gill_lndian_grocery_store_in_Queens__New_York_2004_The_Americans_2000-2007__c__Gauri_Gill.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Distance becomes closeness. Gauri Gill’s “The Americans”