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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2015>From the Library: Photobooks After Robert Frank

# From the Library: Photobooks After Frank

August 8, 2015 – February 7, 2016West Building, Ground Floor, G-21

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

**Overview:** The publication of Robert Frank's*The Americans* marked a shift in the medium of photography. Traditionally, photographs had been viewed as an objective representation of reality, but Frank demonstrated they could also serve as expressive channels to communicate a truth about the photographer's experience of the world. This focus installation explores the role of the photobook in the decades following Frank's seminal work and the ways in which *The Americans* shaped the emergence of photography as a viable fine-art form. Books by photographers such as Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Robert Adams, Rineke Dijkstra, and Ralph Gibson are included, as well as photobooks by artists including Ed Ruscha and Roni Horn.

Throughout the duration of the installation, a selection of more than 50 additional photobooks from the National Gallery of Art Library collections is available in the library reading room. Reprints and alternate editions of several of the books in the installation are available, as well as other works by these photographers and books from photographers not represented in the installation. The reading room can be accessed in the East Building, Ground Floor, Study Center, on Mondays between noon and 4:00 p.m. and Tuesdays through Fridays between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (Not open on weekends.)

**Brochure:**From the Library: Photobooks after Frank by Yuri Long. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2015. 

                    - Adams, Robert
                    - American , 1937 - 
                    - Dijkstra, Rineke
                    - Dutch , 1959 - 
                    - Frank, Robert
                    - American , 1924 - 2019
                    - Friedlander, Lee
                    - American , 1934 - 
                    - Gibson, Ralph
                    - American , 1939 - 
                    - Goldin, Nan
                    - American , 1953 - 
                    - Horn, Roni
                    - American , 1955 - 
                    - Ruscha, Ed
                    - American , 1937 - 

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