Contributions

  • Alexander, Stuart. - Contributor
  • National Gallery of Art (U.S.) - Contributor

Publication

2009 - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

126,500 words, Guess

Page Count

506 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783865218063
  • ISBN-139783865217486
  • ISBN-103865218067
  • ISBN-103865217486
  • LibraryThing7719337
and 6 more
  • Goodreads6213378', '4016080
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008038140
  • OCLC Control Number301667644
  • Better World Books9783865218063
  • Better World Books9783865217486
  • Open LibraryOL22551245M

Classifications

  • DDC779/.9973921
  • LCCE169.Z8 G694 2009
  • LCCE169.Z8G694 2009

Description

"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.

Subjects

Genres

  • Pictorial works
  • Exhibitions

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