THE AMERICANS
Frank, Robert (Introduction by Jack Kerouac)
Language: English
Published by Aperture, Los Angeles, 1978
- Hardcover
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Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.Aardvark Rare Books
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Folio. 11 1/4 x 9 14 in. Black cloth-covered boards with title embossed to front board. Rubbing to extremities and a bump to bottom edge of front board.Edgewear and a 1 in. x 1 1/2 in. chip to dustjacket. In l955 and l956, driving an old used car, living off the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation grant he had been awarded, Robert Frank traversed forty-eight states of America "and with the agility, mystery, genius, sadness and strange secrecy of a shadow photographed scenes that have never been seen before on film.The humolr, the sadness, the EVERYTHING-ness and American--ness of these pictures! Tall thin cowboy rolling butt outside Madison Squaer Garden New York for rodeo season, sad, spindly, unbelievable -- Long shot of night road arrowing forlorn into immensities and flat of impossible-to-believe America in New Mexico under the prisoner's moon -- under the whang whang guitar star -- Haggard old frowsy dames of Los Angeles leaning peering out the right front window of Old Paw's car on a Syunday gawking and criticizing to explain Amerikay to little children in the spattered back seat.What a poem this is, what poems can ber written about this book of pictures some day by some young new writer high by candelight bending over them describing every gray mysterious dertail, the gray film that caught the actual pink juice of human kind." (Jack Kerouac).…
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- Title
- THE AMERICANS
- Author
- Frank, Robert (Introduction by Jack Kerouac)
- Publisher
- Aperture, Los Angeles
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- GOOD PLUS in Good Dustjacket
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0893810339
- ISBN 13
- 9780893810337
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Seller catalogs
- Photography
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Review
...Robert Frank changed history with the 83 images that appeared in his stark breakthrough "The Americans.--Sam Whiting "SFGate "
That is the miracle of great socially committed art: It addresses our sources of deepest unease, helps us to confront what we cannot organize or explain by making all of it unforgettable.--Nicholas Dawidoff "The New York Times Magazine "
The exhibition is as comprehensive as it is ephemeral featuring a wealth of photographs, all of Frank's books since 1947, and his films that he began focusing on in the early 1960s.--Lisa Contag "Artinfo "
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