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Background information
"First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, the now photo book classic 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK changed the course of twentieth-century photography.
Content
In eighty-three photographs, Robert FRANK looked beneath in the photo volume 'The Americans' the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians, and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just Robert FRANKs subject matter—cars, jukeboxes, and even the road itself—that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally, and linguistically, that made 'The Americans' so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was fifty-six years ago." (© Steidl Verlag, 2008)
Additional information
The publisher Steidl made reissues in several language (English, German, Chinese); the rarest one is actually the Chines edition
About Swiss-American photographer, Robert FRANK (1924-2019)
Photo books by as well on the work by Robert FRANK
- Format
- re-edit (actual, 11th print run), HC with dust jacket, 21 x 18,5 x 2,5 cm., 180 pp., b/w ills., text language: English