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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.
Robert Frank's Americans reappear 40 years after they were initially published in this exquisite volume by Scalo. Each photograph (there are more than 80 of them) stands alone on a page, while the caption information is included at the back of the book, allowing viewers an unfettered look at the images. Jack Kerouac's original introduction, commissioned when the photographer showed the writer his work while sitting on a sidewalk one night outside of a party, provides the only accompanying text. Kerouac's words add narrative dimension to Frank's imagery while in turn the photographs themselves perfectly illustrate the writer's own work.
Select Praise for the 50th Anniversary Edition of Robert Frank, The Americans:
"Photography was never the same after The Americans. Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Nan Goldin all walked through the door Frank opened. And his influence was by no means limited to art photography. Fashion ads, music videos, movies- everyone stole from Frank".
Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
"One of the greatest photography books of the 20th century."
Richard Lacayo, TIME
"Frank's genius was to see America unfiltered, much like Walker Evans and Dorthea Lange. There are no tricks here, no posing or false glory, just a sense of desolation."
David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
"The Americans reflects the mood of a turbulent decade, when postwar euphoria was giving way to racial tension and anti-Communist paranoia. But it's not just remarkable for its subject matter. The book offered a new visual language for photography: an intimate, off kilter aesthetic that's been imitated so many times that it seems obvious. In 1958, in an era of Tupperware and Hula-Hoops, it was far from obvious. Like its contemporary Beat-era poetry and novels, The Americans was a blast of authenticity, a potent artistic statement, a revelation."
Sarah Coleman, Planet
"To mark the book's fiftieth anniversary, Steidl has published a new edition, complete with Kerouac's introduction, making The Americans the most famous photography book all over again."
Nicole Rudick, Bookforum
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original Scalo First Edition statement on copyright page - beautiful reprint of one of the classics of photography. 179 pages, excellent b + w plates throughout. Outer page edges are bright white. Some light rubbing, scratching to the jacket. Very nice in protective mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # ABE-1707282514086
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. SCALO PUBLISHERS. 1993 B00K: Fine/ (illustrator). 1st Edition. B00K: Fine/ $54O.12. Reduced From. 18816161OX the AMERICANS FRANK, Robert; KEROUAC, Jack SCAL0 PUBLISHERS 1993 1sT SCAL0 Edition Black Spine With Title White Letters, Dust Jacket: Fine/Very Good/, Sight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. One, ½ Inch Bump, Into The Spine, In The Middle Front Edge. Rectangular Hard Cover BooK: Fine/, 179 Numbered Pages, That Were Lightly Read, And Are Clean And Tight To The Spine, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Gift Inscription To Prior Owner, In The Front Of The BooK, As Follows, X-mas, Chanukah 1996 Dearest Lois Than you for giving Birth To A DAUGHTER WHO GAVE BIRTH TO MY Best Friend. I Love You, Peter And A Healthy & Prosperous 97------'. Written In Blue Ink. Printed On Off White Paper. = = Description Applies To This B00K, Only. Which, Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped = Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE. =. Seller Inventory # 012200
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