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.
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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.
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Add this copy of Looking in: Robert Frank's "the Americans" to cart. $60.00, very good condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Steidl; National Gallery of Art.
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New in Shrinkwrap. White wraps with bw illustration. 384 pages. Many photos. "First published in France in 1958, then the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three 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 his 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 fifty years ago."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Foreword / Earl A. Powell III--Introduction / Sarah Greenough--Zurich to New York, 1924-1954--Guggenheim Fellowship, 1955-1957--Americans, 1958-1959--Destroying The Americans, 1960-2008--Acknowledgments / Sarah Greenough. Catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Jan. 18-Apr. 26, 2009; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 16-Aug. 23, 2009; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 22-Dec. 27, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index.
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