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 enlarge | Creators: Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank
Publisher: Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 1750
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 386521584X
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865215840
ASIN: 386521584X
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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 Slices of American Life November 20, 2006
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Captured moments of Amercian Life, often shown here with an American flag in the photo. These images in this book portray a visual artist who is creating photos by shifting angles, waiting for the right moment, using light in a different way. Its tough to describe this book other than to say that it was edited pretty well.
There's more to Frank than just The Americans July 23, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful monograph of Frank's early work, presented in a highly innovative sequence of images based loosly on formal and thematic topics. The book's meaning grows and changes with every read. Although it is hailed as a seminal work of progressive street photography now, it was not so warmly received in its postwar days. For instance, in 1960 a critic for Popular Photography called it, "A sad poem for a sick people." However, Frank maintained an aloof political stance and managed to escape McCarthyism's career-ending scrutiny, unlike many of his coleagues.
If you like this book, you might enjoy Walker Evans' "American Photographs" and Tod Papageorge's comparison of the two photo-books. Also see Frank's later works, as seen in the retrospective "The Lines of My Hand" and such extensive exhibition catalogues as "Hold Still-Keep Going" and "Moving Out." Frank's later body of work reveals a preoccupation with the passage of time, perhaps inspired by his 40+ years in film. These photos also bear negative scratching, collage, over-painting, and the deliberate addition of text--all of which vastly different from his Americans-era images. Although these photographic accomplishments, stunning in their own right, have been ignored by scholarship for some time, the 1990s establishment of the Robert Frank Collection at the National Gallery promises to preserve as well as present Frank's later works in a new and interesting light.
Also:
Dear Benjamin,
Per your inquiry, Robert Frank's book was published in Switzerland because the photographer is SWISS. Scalo has made an effort to publish most of Frank's books in his home country, as well as the US, England, France, Canada (where he lives now), etc. Frank emigrated to the US in 1947 and became an American citizen in 1963. Knowing these simple facts might help you examine this work with renewed clarity. Also, people in Switzerland enjoy books just as much as Americans. Perhaps you should conduct some research every now and again, it might make you look less ignorant.
My Life March 13, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've been a professional photographer, still in love with photography after 40 years shooting, still shooting every day. Thank you Robert Frank. You've had a vision that is the best photography book ever done, I wish I could do it!!!!
Que maravilla de libro de fotografia. October 16, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Si os gusta la fotografia de reportaje compradlo sin reservas.
No tiene desperdicio, ojala encuentro mas libros de fotografos como Robert Frank.
Muy bueno.
Un saludo desde Espana a todos los hispanos.
Moving Stills September 29, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is the real thing, it should be part of any collection of outstanding photography books. Robert Frank shoots beautifully and unselfconciously, this is exemplary photojournalism that takes a viewer into the deep waters of the truly gifted.
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