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Robert Frank's The Americans: Looking In

Item date(s): 2009

Robert Frank - (Photographer)
Sarah Greenough - (Author)
Stuart Alexander - (Essay by)
Phillip Brookman - (Essay by)
Michel Frizot - (Essay by)
Martin Gasser - (Essay by)
Jeff L. Rosenheim - (Essay by)
Luc Sante - (Essay by)
Anne Wilkes Tucker - (Essay by)

Pages: 373pp
Size: 290mm

Sub-type: Photo book

Place publication: Washington D. C.
Publisher: National Gallery of Art; Steidl
ISBN 978-3-86521-748-6

Additional notes:
The 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert Frank's ground-breaking book of black-and-white photographs, will be celebrated with the major exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art September 22, 2009–January 3, 2010. Robert Frank is one of the great living masters of photography, and his seminal book The Americans captured a culture on the brink of social upheaval. The exhibition traces the artist's process of creating this once-controversial suite of photographs, which grew out of several cross-country road trips in 1955 and 1956. Born in Switzerland in 1924, Frank was an outsider encountering much of America for the first time; he discovered its power, its vastness, and—at times—its troubling emptiness. Although Frank's depiction of American life was criticized when the book was released in the U.S. in 1959, The Americans soon became recognized as a masterpiece of 20th-century art. Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans features all 83 photographs from his original book. Remarkably, the exhibition at the Metropolitan will be the first time that this body of work is presented in its entirety to a New York audience.

Ref: GB/80726