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Subtitle: Robert Frank's The Americans, expanded edition
By: Sarah Greenough ; with contributed essays by Stuart Alexander ... [el al.].
Contributors: Alexander, Stuart.; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9783865218063; 9783865217486
Subjects: Frank, Robert, -- 1924- -- Exhibitions; Frank, Robert, -- 1924- -- Exhibitions; National characteristics, American -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions; Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970 -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.; Pictorial works
Description: "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, Jan. 18-Apr. 26, 2009; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 17-Aug. 23, 2009; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 22-Dec. 27, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.