from: Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.9
EAN: 9783865215840
ISBN: 386521584X
Label: Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington
Manufacturer: Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 180
Publication Date: June 01, 2008
Publisher: Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Sales Rank: 3062
Studio: Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Rating:  - iNTERESTING
Excellent print quality.. A glance at common people in random daily-life shots. It's a book worth a place in your hands
Rating: - It's not by Jack K.
This book was not by Jack Kerouac. It's by Robert Frank. It's one of the seminal books in the history of photography. Many see it as a hate letter to America, but that's a shallow reading of the book. It's some of the best documentary done by a non-documentarian of the American culture of the period. If you really want to see great photography with a point of view, this is a good start.
I find lots of listings get authorship wrong when the book is about a photographer's work. Amazon ... Read More
Rating: - The definitive "The Americans"
We're lucky to have this edition. Robert Frank is an old man with health issues now. That he is healthy enough to oversee this work is wonderful. Everything about this edition - especially in comparison to the 2007 Delpine edition I purchased earlier this year - is first-rate. I wish I had known this was coming out!
The book is a little smaller than the Delpine, but that's the only real negative (if it is one) I can think of. The main thing to me is that the photos themselves are how ... Read More
Rating: - Black and White and Grey
Looking at this again after many years ( I first came across it about 25 years ago) the images are as poignant as ever. This is truly a great book of photographs and is perhaps the best photojournalist's collection ever published. The new edition has all the gravity and attention to detail that the work deserves.
Rating: - The open road of Robert Frank
In this new edition of THE AMERICANS, the publisher, Steidl seems to have taken every step necessary to maintain artistic integrity of Franks vision. Even going as far as having Frank supervise the new printing of the photographs used in the book. The paper used in the book is very high quality, perhaps even 'archival' grade. Of course, there is the Kerouac introduction that both rambles, amuses and enlightens. There is a small pamphlet included in the book briefly telling the background story of ... Read More
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