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Robert Frank's The Americans : the art of documentary photography / Jonathan Day.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Day, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary photography.
- Photographic criticism.
- United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970--Pictorial works.
- United States.
- Frank, Robert, 1924- Americains--English.
- Frank, Robert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the mid 50's, 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. 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.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Robert Frank; Introduction; Part One: America and The Americans; 1 Frank and the '50's; 2 Developing The Americans; 3 A Divided World: 'Art' and 'Documentary' Photography; 4 The Creation, Selection and Programming of The Americans' Images: All That Jazz; 5 Image and Text; Part Two: Themes in The Americans; 6 People of the Flag; 7 On the Road; 8 Losing My Religion: New Icons For a New Civilization; 9 The Americans' Response To The Family of Man Exhibition
- 10 The Americans and the Promotional Images of the Standard Oil Company 11 The Primacy of the Visual; Part Three: The Americans As a Photographic Sequence; 12 Tracing the Lines of His Hand; Conclusion; References; Photographs in The Americans; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613162656
- 9781283162654
- 1283162652
- 9781841504469
- 1841504467
- OCLC:
- 714572251
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