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First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of 20th-century photography

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.

More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 56 years ago.

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Book category Books in English The arts Photography & photographs Individual photographers

• Full title: The Americans
• Author: Robert Frank
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9783865215840
• ISBN: 386521584X
• ID: 04336846
• Publisher: Steidl Publishers
• Weight: 756 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 191 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. June 2008

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