“The Americans” by Robert Frank
Photographs by Robert Frank
The Americans “changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it… it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century.”
“The Americans” Photographs by Robert Frank
Art film created from the images of the Photobook by Robert Frank, one of the masterpieces in the history of photography.
The photo book that redefined what a photo book could be — personal, poetic, real. First published in 1959, Robert Frank’s masterpiece still holds up — the selection of photos, and their sequence and pacing is fresh, rich, generous, and stunning.
Jack Kerouac said, “Robert Frank…he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.”
The Americans is a photographic book by Robert Frank which was highly influential in post-war American photography. It was first published in France in 1958, and the following year in the United States. The photographs were notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society. The book as a whole created a complicated portrait of the period that was viewed as skeptical of contemporary values and evocative of ubiquitous loneliness. “Frank set out with his Guggenheim Grant to do something new and unconstrained by commercial diktats” and made “a now classic photography book in the iconoclastic spirit of the Beats”
