Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans: Expanded Edition

Greenough, Sarah; Frank, Robert

Published by National Gallery Of Art, Washington / Steidl, 2009

About this Item

First Edition thus, 2009. 528 pages. Edited with text by Sarah Greenough, and includes additional texts by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Stuart Alexander, Martin Gasser, Jeff Rosenheim, Michel Frizot, Luc Sante, Philip Brookman. Profusely illustrated throughout with 210 duotone, 168 tritone and 108 color plates. 'Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this prescient book. Drawing on newly examined archival sources, it provides a fascinating in-depth examination of the making of the photographs and the book's construction, using vintage contact sheets, work prints and letters that literally chart Frank's journey around the country on a Guggenheim grant in 1955 56. Curator and editor Sarah Greenough and her colleagues also explore the roots of The Americans in Frank's earlier books, which are abundantly illustrated here, and in books by photographers Walker Evans, Bill Brandt and others. The 83 original photographs from The Americans are presented in sequence in as near vintage prints as possible. The catalogue concludes with an examination of Frank's later reinterpretations and deconstructions of The Americans, bringing full circle the history of this resounding entry in the annals of photography. This is the Expanded Edition of the 2009 book. Includes number line beginning with 1 on the copyright page. Red cloth. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Binding is square and tight. A very nice copy of this comprehensive and essential Robert Frank volume.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans: Expanded Edition
• Publisher: National Gallery Of Art, Washington / Steidl
• Publication Date: 2009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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  • Photography