Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans: Expanded Edition (SIGNED)

Greenough, Sarah; Robert Frank

ISBN 10: 3865218067 / ISBN 13: 9783865218063

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

About this Item

Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). As new copy in like dust jacket with original red wraparound band. The Expanded Edition that accompanied an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book was signed by photographer Robert Frank on the title page after an interview he gave with Sarah Greenough, the exhibition's curator, who also signed the book. Photographs of Robert Frank, his wife and Sarah Greenough leaving the National Gallery and of Robert Frank signing the book are included. A wonderful opportunity to own this signed landmark publication. Seller Inventory # 008560

Bibliographic Details

Title: Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans: ...

Publisher: Washington, DC: National Gallery Of Art / Steidl

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009 and 2010, 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 eighty-three 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.

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 "