Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans: Expanded Edition

Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans: Expanded Edition

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First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's <I>The Americans</I> changed the course of twentieth-century photography.<br> <I>Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"</I> 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 <I>The Americans</I> in Frank's earlier books, which are abundantly illustrated here, and in books by photographers Walker Evans, Bill Brandt and others. The 83 original photographs from <I>The Americans</I> 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 <I>The Americans</I>, bringing full circle the history of this resounding entry in the annals of photography. This volume is a reprint of the 2009 edition.