Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans (First printing of this edition)

[Robert Frank] Sarah Greenough (editor, contributor); Stuart Alexander, Philip Brookman, Michel Frizot, Martin Gasser, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Luc Sante, Anne Wilkes Tucker (contributors)

ISBN 10: 3865218067 / ISBN 13: 9783865218063

Published by National Gallery of Art / Steidl, Washington, DC, 2009

About this Item

Hardcover. First printing of this revised edition. An expanded edition of this catalog, published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art from January 18 through April 26, 2009, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from May 16 through August 23, 2009, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 22 through December 27, 2009. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, with the publisher's wraparound band. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans (First printing of this edition)
• Publisher: National Gallery of Art / Steidl, Washington, DC
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3865218067
• ISBN 13: 9783865218063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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About this title

Synopsis

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.

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 volume is a reprint of the 2009 edition.

Review

Like the exhibition, the catalog for “Looking in” was distinguished by its rigorous scholarship. Its expanded, special edition, which included the full contents of “The Americans,” as well as scholarly essays, facsimiles of contact sheets, photographer notes and correspondences, and other archival materials, functioned much like a massive and comprehensive finding guide, though limited to only one of Mr. Frank’s projects. (Maurice Berger The New York Times - Lens)