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Clth, 8.25 x 7.25 in. / 180 pgs / 83 tritone. PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/15/2008
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| | | Robert Frank: The AmericansIntroduction by Jack Kerouac.
 First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of 20th-century photographyFirst 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.
"Drugstore, Detroit" (1955) is reproduced from Robert Frank: The Americans.PRAISE AND REVIEWSArtinfo Lisa Contag The exhibition is as comprehensive as it is ephemeral featuring a wealth of photographs, all of Frank’s books since 1947, and his films that he began focusing on in the early 1960s. The New York Times Magazine Nicholas Dawidoff That is the miracle of great socially committed art: It addresses our sources of deepest unease, helps us to confront what we cannot organize or explain by making all of it unforgettable. SFGate Sam Whiting ...Robert Frank changed history with the 83 images that appeared in his stark breakthrough “The Americans. San Francisco Chronicle Ken Light His work is revolutionary in showing an America that was not seen, but also creating a way of seeing in photography that was new, powerful and charged. L'Oeil de la Photographie The photographs from his seminal book The Americans, which took a critical look at our nation’s life in the 1950s, are timeless. His work continues to inspire new generations to follow his path to see what is invisible in America. Artsy Scott Indrisek [Frank] pioneered a whole new subject matter that we [now] define as icons: cars, jukeboxes, even the road itself. New York Times Philip Gefter The Americans challenged the presiding midcentury formula for photojournalism. Mr. Frank’s photographs — of lone individuals, teenage couples, groups at funerals and odd spoors of cultural life — were cinematic, immediate, off-kilter and grainy, like early television transmissions of the period. LitHub Jim Lewis I can’t think of a single living artist who has as secure a status in his or her chosen field, and I doubt there will be one for some time. New York Times Arthur Lubow Each portrait tells its own story. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/9/2021 "What a poem this is, what poems can be written about a book of pictures some day by some young new writer high by candlelight bending over them describing every gray mysterious detail, the gray film that caught the actual pink juice of human kind. Whether 't is the milk of human kindness, Shakespeare meant, makes no difference when you look at these pictures. Better than a show." On the occasion of the late photographer's birthday, we are pleased to reproduce "Movie Premiere, Hollywood" (1956) from Frank's seminal first photography book, The Americans, back in stock from Steidl. "The humor, the sadness, the EVERYTHING-ness and American-ness of these pictures!" Jack Kerouac wrote in his 1959 Introduction, also quoted above. continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/7/2014 In his 1959 introduction to Robert Frank's now-seminal photobook, The Americans, Jack Kerouac wrote, "Anybody doesnt like these pitchers dont like potry, see? Anybody dont like potry go home see Television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses.
Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.
To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.
And I say: That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up and sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what's her name & address?" On November 9, Frank celebrates his ninetieth birthday. Happy birthday, Robert Frank.
"Elevator - Miami Beach" is reproduced from The Americans, seventh edition, published by Steidl. continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/14/2018 When Robert Frank's photobook masterpiece The Americans came out in 1958, photography changed forever. "Seeing The Americans in a college bookshop was a stunning, ground-trembling experience for me," Ed Ruscha has written, for example. "But I realized this man's achievement could not be mined or imitated in any way, because he had already done it, sewn it up and gone home. What I was left with was the vapors of his talent. I had to make my own kind of art. But wow! The Americans!" Featured image is "Coffee shop, railway station—Indianapolis." continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/3/2019 Photo lovers, students, librarians, teachers and bookstores across the land, rejoice! The Americans—Robert Frank's masterpiece and perhaps the most influential photography book of the twentieth century—is back in stock at last! Robert Frank is "the photographic equivalent of Rimbaud," Tod Papageorge writes, "an anarchic poet who sings one brutal song, and then, in despair and exaltation, or whatever joy is found in conjunction with the creation of something incomparable, denies his gift by rejecting it." Featured image is "Public park — Ann Arbor, Michigan." continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/4/2020 “That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, that’s what Robert Frank has captured in tremendous photographs taken as he traveled on the road around practically forty-eight states in an old used car (on Guggenheim Fellowship) and with the agility, mystery, genius, sadness and strange secrecy of a shadow photographed scenes that have never been seen before on film. For this he will definitely be hailed as a great artist in his field… Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.” —Jack Kerouac, The Americans. continue to blog | |  | Pace PublishingISBN: 9781948701785
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