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  Robert Frank: The Americans (Hardback) By (author) Robert Frank, By (author) Jack Kerouac

  

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  Short Description for Robert Frank: The AmericansOriginally published in 1958, "The Americans" was part of a series of books that presented foreign countries through words and pictures. Frank personally supervised this latest edition that features a new cover as well as digitally enhanced images.
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  • Publisher: Steidl Verlag
  • Published: 09 June 2008
  • Format: Hardback 180 pages
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  • Categories: Individual Photographers | Photographs: Collections | Photographic Reportage
  • ISBN 13: 9783865215840 ISBN 10: 386521584X
  • Sales rank: 7,438

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Full description for Robert Frank: The Americans

• Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a couple at city hall in Reno, Nevada, and the despair of the present in a grimy roofscape. He saw the roiling racial tension, glamour, and beauty, and, perhaps because Frank himself was on the road, he was particularly attuned to Americans' love for cars. Funeral-goers lean against a shiny sedan, lovers kiss on a beach blanket in front of their parked car, young boys perch in the back seat at a drive-in movie. A sports car under a drop cloth is framed by two California palm trees; on the next page, a blanket is draped over a car accident victim's body in Arizona.