Description:
Expanded Edition.
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.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"" celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this prescient book. Drawing on newly examined archival sources, it provides a fascinating in-depth examination of the making of the photographs and the book's construction, using vintage contact sheets, work prints and letters that literally chart Frank's journey around the country.
Curator and editor Sarah Greenough and her colleagues also explore the roots of "The Americans" in Frank's earlier books, which are abundantly illustrated here, and in books by photographers Walker Evans, Bill Brandt and others. The 83 original photographs from "The Americans" are presented in sequence in as near vintage prints as possible. The catalogue concludes with an examination of Frank's later reinterpretations and deconstructions of "The Americans," bringing full circle the history of this resounding entry in the annals of photography.
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: Steidl
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 24.1 x 29.7 cm
Pages: 528
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 9783865218063
Description:
Expanded Edition.
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.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"" celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this prescient book. Drawing on newly examined archival sources, it provides a fascinating in-depth examination of the making of the photographs and the book's construction, using vintage contact sheets, work prints and letters that literally chart Frank's journey around the country.
Curator and editor Sarah Greenough and her colleagues also explore the roots of "The Americans" in Frank's earlier books, which are abundantly illustrated here, and in books by photographers Walker Evans, Bill Brandt and others. The 83 original photographs from "The Americans" are presented in sequence in as near vintage prints as possible. The catalogue concludes with an examination of Frank's later reinterpretations and deconstructions of "The Americans," bringing full circle the history of this resounding entry in the annals of photography.
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: Steidl
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 24.1 x 29.7 cm
Pages: 528
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 9783865218063