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The Americans

Author: Robert Frank
Creator: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grossman Publishers, an Aperture Book
Customer Rating:   32 Reviews
Our Price: $400.00
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Condition: NY: Grossman Publishers,1969. revised and enlarged edition. Hard cover w/ DJ. Oblong 8vo. unpaginated. Text in English with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. DJ is lightly edgeworn, with small repaired chips on head and tail of spine. DJ is lightly solied on the front panel and rear panel has some raised blemishes (like pen points). Book corners are bumped and lightly worn; text has a slight lean. Text is clean from any names or markings and DJ is not price-clipped ($8.50). Overall a nice copy of this hard to find edition. Book and DJ condition: Good in mylar jacket. Orders are carefully packaged and shipped within 24 hours. Free upgrade to Priority Mail. Thank you.

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Amazon.com Review
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.

Product Description
Previously published in 1959, Frank's most famous and influential photography book contained a series of deceptively simple photos that he took on a trip through America in 1955 and 1956. These pictures of everyday people still speak to us today, 40 years and several generations later.


Customer Reviews    Read 27 more reviews...
  Very inspirational   December 21, 2008
Bo Lorentzen (Los Angeles)
Great book, not much new to say about it. But I find it fantastically inspirational in that it again show a series of very successful images based in vision and imagery instead of tools and mechanics. For today's photographers its very easy to get trapped in megapixel and the latest lens race.. this is a book shot for images. If you are a photographer or into photography, just buy the book and start enjoying, you will come back to this over and over again.



  Documentary Photography at its best!   December 6, 2008
Sergio Schroeder (Juiz de Fora - MG - Brazil)
Robert Frank's "The Americans" is a great lesson in documentary photography - the images transport you to the moment, making you part of what is happening, as an observer. Robert Frank even lets the subject realize his presence by direct eye contact, letting the viewer know S/he is also being observed. I like his breaking of symmetry of lines, creating tension in his compositions, making us ask questions, search for answers about the image. A great book!



  The Americans   December 6, 2008
S. Schmidt (Missouri and Michigan)
Robert Frank is an iconic photographer of American life. For people in their 50's or older it is nostalgic. And for those younger, it is a visual slice of our history. There are many stories here. A good book.



  Robert Frank, not Jack Kerouac   October 31, 2008
Daniel V. Welton (eugene oregon)
contrary to what is listed, The Americans is by Robert Frank, the photographer. the photos are timeless and i still use them to teach photography to college students
jack kerouac only wrote the forward.
set the record straight for non-photographers.
thank you.



  iNTERESTING   September 24, 2008
D. Vladimirovits (Athens, Greece)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Excellent print quality.. A glance at common people in random daily-life shots. It's a book worth a place in your hands



Product Specifications


Media: Hardcover
Edition: [Rev. & enl. ed.]
Publication Date: 1969



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