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 enlarge | Creators: Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank
Publisher: Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 2461
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: 973.9
EAN: 9783865215840
ASIN: 386521584X
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Switzerland August 29, 2005
1 out of 21 found this review helpful
I don't know why this book is printed in Switzerland, but hey!, still a GREAT book. I bought it because Bruce Springsteen was inspired by Robert Frank in order to get his design for Nebraska. There are a couple of pictures or three that are very close to the Springsteen imaginery.
A Masterpiece That Revolutionized Photography December 24, 2004
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
Robert Frank with this small little book changed the course of photography. He changed the way people take photographs. He changed the way we look at photographs. He changed the definition of what was an acceptable or good photograph. The way Monet and Picasso changed how one could paint, Frank changed the way one could photograph.
How did he do this? He basically introduced the "icongraphic photograph" to the world. Take for example, his picture in the Americans of a political rally for Ike. It is of a man standing against a blank wall, playing the tuba. But the tuba's opening obscures his face, all you see is the big blank dark opening of the the tuba where his eyes and mouth are suppossed to be. And then right behind the tuba, almost coming out of it, a flag, an American flag, though shapeless, and formless and it snakes out of the picture. On the man's lapel is a big "For Ike" button. At the time, this was a radical photograph and statement about politics and the role of the individual in political life; remember this was 1957.
There are many many many other photographs like this throughout the Americans: St. Peter taking on City Hall. The American flag covering the faces of the people at a parade. The jukebox everywhere. The signs screaming "No Negroes Allowed" while on the next page is a photograph of an older black women holding in her arms, caring for, a young white baby. Frank clearly asking, screaming, why is it okay for them to care your for babies but not okay for them to use the same toilet as you?
It is a subtle but very powerful book. And once you see it, once you get it, you can never see a photograph the same way again.
He has influenced every photographer who has come after him.
Without Robert Frank there would be no Gary Winograd, Eugene Richards, Gilles Peres, William Klien, Bruce Davidson, Alex Webb, Salgado, Danny Lyon, James Nachtwey, Lauren Greenblatt, Ron Haviv, or Herb Ritts.
This book is the starting point for anyone interested in photography, or at least photography after 1958 when this book was first published.
PHOTOGRAPHY. June 9, 2004
6 out of 19 found this review helpful
There are three types of photographers.
The first are with goals of one day selling out to a magazine or whomever has a wallet.
The second are the hobbyists who prance around the city with their Leicas.
The third is Robert Frank. Thank you for sharing your pictures.
There's nothing left to say April 15, 2003
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
What can one say about a classic? Is it possible to review Beethoven's Ninth? Faulker's "As I Lay Dying"? No. This is arguably the book that most influenced almost all the subsequent generations of photographers. Frank looked at the world with a fresh viewpoint and his photographs were a slap in the face. It's impossible to put ourselves in the world of photography that preceded this book because Frank has changed our prespectives so drastically.
Still as powerful as ever! August 8, 2002
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book re-affirms for me, the power of photography. It grants me permisssion to look at the world again with fresh eyes, enjoying all that humanity and nature has to offer. I find the images speak to me in a timeless manner and are a joy to behold. I am still surprised that it received such a cold reception when it was first published, but as a Gen Xer I geuss it was another world in those days. Buy this book you'll not regret it.
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