Robert Frank's 'The Americans'
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-84150-315-8 (ISBN)
In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo book, The Americans, represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's understanding of itself. To mark the book’s fiftieth anniversary, Jonathan Day revisits this pivotal work and contributes a thoughtful and revealing critical commentary. Though the importance of The Americans has been widely acknowledged, it still retains much of its mystery. This comprehensive analysis places it thoroughly in the context of contemporary photography, literature, music, and advertising from its own period through the present.
Jonathan Day is a senior lecturer in visual communications and theoretical and historical studies in art and design.
Foreword by Eamonn McCabe
Introduction
Part One: America and The Americans
Chapter 1: Frank and the 50s
Chapter 2: Developing The Americans
Chapter 3: 'The Americans' as the love child of ‘art’ and ‘documentary’
Chapter 4: The creation, selection and programming of The Americans images
Chapter 5: Image and text
Part Two: Themes in The Americans
Chapter 5: People of the Flag
Chapter 6: On the Road
Chapter 7: Losing my religion: new icons for a new civilisation
Chapter 8: The Americans and The Family of Man
Chapter 9: The Americans and the promotional images of Standard Oil
Chapter 10: The primacy of the visual
Part Three: The Americans as a photographic sequence
Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.9.2013 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 327 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Fotografieren / Filmen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84150-315-0 / 1841503150 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84150-315-8 / 9781841503158 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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