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.--Lisa Contag "Artinfo"
Product details
- Hardback | 180 pages
- 184 x 209 x 25.4mm | 760g
- 01 Aug 2020
- Steidl Publishers
- Steidl Verlag
- Gottingen, Germany
- English
- Special edition
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Illustrated in tritone throughout
- 386521584X
- 9783865215840
- 1,459
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