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Robert Frank's The Americans : the art of documentary photography
- Title
- Robert Frank's The Americans : the art of documentary photography / Jonathan Day.
- Author
- Day, Jonathan.
- Publication
- Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TR140.F828 D39 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 186 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war 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 emerging understanding of itself. 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, painting, music, and advertising."--Page 4 of cover.
- Alternative Title
- Art of documentary photography
- Subject
- Frank, Robert, 1924-2019
- Frank, Robert
- Américains (Frank, Robert)
- 1900-1999
- Documentary photography
- Photographic criticism
- Documentary photography > 20th century
- documentary photography
- Manners and customs
- Dokumentarphotographie
- Porträtphotographie
- United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970 > Pictorial works
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Documentary photography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Robert Frank / Eamonn Mccabe -- Introduction -- Part 1: America and The Americans: Frank and the '50s; Developing The Americans; A divided world: 'art' and 'documentary' photography; The creation selection and programming of The Americans' images: all that jazz; Image and text -- Part 2: Themes in The Americans: People of the flag; On the road; Losing my religion-new icons for a new civilization; The Americans' response to the Family of Man exhibition; The Americans and the promotional images of the Standard Oil Company; The primacy of the visual -- Part 3: The Americans as a photographic sequence -- Tracing the lines of his hand -- Conclusion -- References -- Photographs in The Americans.
- ISBN
- 9781841503158
- 1841503150
- OCLC
- ocn703839238
- 703839238
- SCSB-1586132
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library