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The Americans / photographs by Robert Frank ; introduction by Jack Kerouac. - © 2008 Steidl, Germany for this edition, first edition published in 1958 by Robert Delpire. - Göttingen : Steidl ; Washington : National Gallery of Art, © 2008. - [184] stron : fotografie ; 21x19 cm.

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Author

Frank Robert (1924-2019) Fotografie Kerouac Jack (1922-1969) Autor przedmowy

Form of Work

Książki Albumy i książki artystyczne

Subject

Frank, Robert (1924-2019) Fotografowie amerykańscy Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

Genre/Form

Album

Domain

Historia Kultura i sztuka

Tytuł serii

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Instytucja

Steidl Verlag National Gallery of Art (Waszyngton)

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 American"s 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-six years ago.

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Copies are only available in the library: sygn. GR 7995 (1 egz.)

Notes:

General note

All photographs taken 1955/1956.

Language note

Tekst w języku angielskim.