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Robert Frank: The Americans
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Robert Frank: The Americans Hardcover - 2008

by Robert Frank (Photographer); Introduction by Jack Kerouac

Originally published in 1958, "The Americans" was part of a series of books that presented foreign countries through words and pictures. Frank personally supervised this latest edition that features a new cover as well as digitally enhanced images.


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First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of 20th-century photography

First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just Frank's subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even the road itself--that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally and linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 56 years ago.

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  • Title Robert Frank: The Americans
  • Author Robert Frank (Photographer); Introduction by Jack Kerouac
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 180
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Steidl, Gottingen, Germany
  • Date 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9783865215840 / 386521584X
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 8.5 x 1 in (19.05 x 21.59 x 2.54 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 770.92

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  • Library Journal, 06/30/2008, Page 0
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