Looking in : Robert Frank's The Americans / Sarah Greenough ; with contributing essays by Stuart Alexander [and 6 others].

Author
Greenough, Sarah, 1951- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Expanded edition.
Published/​Created
Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; [Göttingen] : Steidl, 2009.
Description
xxi, 506 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 30 cm

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    Summary note
    "First published in France in 1958, then the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three photographs, Frank looked beneath 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 his 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 years ago."--Jacket
    Notes
    Catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Jan. 18-Apr. 26, 2009, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 16-Aug. 23, 2009, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 22-Dec. 27, 2009.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 491-497) and index.
    Contents
    • Zurich to New York, 1924-1954. Resisting intelligence : Zurich to New York / Sarah Greenough ; Robert Frank and Louis Faurer / Anne Wilkes Tucker ; Robert Frank and Edward Steichen / Stuart Alexander
    • Guggenheim fellowship, 1955-1957. Disordering the senses : Guggenheim fellowship / Sarah Greenough ; Robert Frank and Gotthard Schuh / Martin Gasser ; Robert Frank and Walker Evans / Jeff L. Rosenheim
    • The Americans, 1958-1959. Transforming destiny into awareness : the Americans / Sarah Greenough ; Robert Frank and Robert Delpire ; Interview with Robert Delpire / Michel Frizot ; Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac / Luc Sante
    • Destroying The Americans, 1960-2008. Blowing down Bleecker Street : destroying The Americans / Sarah Greenough ; The silence of recognition : exhibiting Robert Frank's Americans / Philip Brookman.
    Other title(s)
    Robert Frank's The Americans
    ISBN
    • 9783865218063 ((hard cover ; : alk. paper))
    • 3865218067 ((hard cover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9783865217486 ((soft cover ; : alk. paper))
    • 3865217486 ((soft cover ; : alk. paper))
    Tech. report no.
    2008940172
    LCCN
    2008038140
    OCLC
    301667644
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