Title: Looking in
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Exhibitions, American National characteristics, National characteristics, American, Artistic Photography, Photography, Artistic, Pictorial works, United states, history, pictorial works, United states, social life and customs, Frank, robert, 1924-2019, Photography, exhibitions
Places: United States
People: Robert Frank (1924-)
Time periods: 1945-1970
LC classification: E169.Z8 G694 2009