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Looking in : Robert Frank's The Americans / Sarah Greenough ; with contributing essays by Stuart Alexander [and 6 others].
Author
Greenough, Sarah, 1951-
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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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Marquand Library - Photography
E169.Z8 G694 2009q Oversize
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Subject(s)
National characteristics, American
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Pictorial works
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Exhibitions
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United States
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Social life and customs
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1945-1970
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Pictorial works
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Exhibitions
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Frank, Robert 1924-2019
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Américains English
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Frank, Robert 1924-2019
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Exhibitions
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Issuing body
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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Host institution
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher
Steidl Verlag
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Contributor
Alexander, Stuart
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Brookman, Philip
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Frizot, Michel
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Gasser, Martin, 1955-
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Rosenheim, Jeff
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Sante, Lucy
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Tucker, Anne
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Exhibition catalogs
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Illustrated works
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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.
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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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