The Americans: Photographs by Robert Frank
New York: Aperture, Grossman Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Unpaginated. Mainly comprised of BW photographs. VG- overall light shelfewar to boards and corners, VG inside. Clean, tight, crisp corners and very little wear. Item #182188
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. -Website description.
OCLC: 46435736
Price: $250.00