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Robert Frank´s ´The Americans´: The Art of Documentary Photography
Jonathan Day
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Description for Robert Frank´s ´The Americans´: The Art of Documentary Photography
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Intellect Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841503158
SKU
V9781841503158
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About Jonathan Day
Jonathan Day is a senior lecturer in visual communications and theoretical and historical studies in art and design.
Reviews for Robert Frank´s ´The Americans´: The Art of Documentary Photography
Robert Frank never did say very much and there is not a single word by him in 'The Americans'. Jonathan Day in this book has expertly taken over as Frank's narrator [...] As Jack Kerouac says in his introduction to 'The Americans', 'to Robert Frank I now give this message: you got eyes'. And now we have the words.
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