Looking in : Robert Frank's The Americans / Sarah Greenough ; with essays by Stuart Alexander and others.
By: Greenough, Sarah [author]
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Contributor(s): Alexander, Stuart [author.] | National Gallery of Art (U.S.) [host institution.].
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BookPublisher: Washington : [Göttingen] : New York, NY : National Gallery of Art ; Steidl ; Distributed in North America by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2009Description: xxi, 374 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783865218063 (hardback); 3865218067 (hardback); 9783865217486 (paperback); 3865217486 (paperback).Subject(s): Frank, Robert, 1924- Americans -- Exhibitions | Frank, Robert, 1924- -- Exhibitions | National characteristics, American -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions | Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970 -- Pictorial works -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 779.092 FRA Summary: 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 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 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 over fifty years ago. -- Inside cover.
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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 in 2009 and 2010, 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 on a Guggenheim grant in 1955/56. 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 eighty-three 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.
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 in 2009 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 books construction, using vintage contact sheets, work prints, and letters that literally chart Frank's journey around the country on a Guggenheim grant in 1955/56. 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 eighty-three 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index.
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 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 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 over fifty years ago. -- Inside cover.