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The Americans | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Steidl Verlag
Category: Book
Buy Used: £130.52
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 22529
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Rev Ed
Pages: 180
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 7.2 x 1
ISBN: 386521584X
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865215840
ASIN: 386521584X
Publication Date: June 1, 2008 (In 10 Days)
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Awe Inspiring September 8, 2007
Brian Hamilton (Scotland, UK)
These photographs are an honest, untainted view of America through the eyes of a foreigner. The greatest accomplishment of Frank is not that he has gone to a country and poked gentle fun at the culture or ridiucled ways he doesn't understand. He has captured photographs showing the true America of the time, segragation, poverty, narrative, intrigue. It's all there.
I was first guided to this book by a Screencraft book about cinematography where one of the interviewed cinematographers cited The Americans as a major influence, when on set he lets the book fall open and allows the image to wash over and inspire him.
True enough, so many classic images, the hungover guy at the jukebox. burnt out highlights streaming through the bar door. Your eye keeps going back to the door, expecting it to open. The black nanny with the pale white baby, the middle aged guy in the restaurant/bar, flanked by two huge cohorts. He is barely visible between their distorted, bulky torsos.
I can't believe this book is no longer in print either, what's that all about. If you see a copy, grab it and hold on. It is absoulutely essential for the keen amateur or pro photographer.
Highly recommended.
PHOTOGRAPHER BIBLE January 29, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After 19 years of working as a pro photographer, I was simply stunted, wordless and sad, because not having a pearle like this in my library. Simply-PERFECT!!!
a SWISS guy with a GERMAN camera taking AMERICAN pictures December 30, 1998
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
this is the only book to buy if you are interested in photography. every image is true. if you ever have a chance to view the actual prints, don't miss them. i have learned more about photography from looking at this book than any other source. it is a masterpiece.
A classic of 20th Century Photography October 10, 1998
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
In 1955, Swiss photographer Robert Frank traveled around the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship. The images he created were published first in France in 1958, and then the following year in America. Highly controversial in its day, "The Americans" gave us a much needed outsiders view of who we are as a people.Frank is an incredibly skilled image maker, able communicate on many different levels with a single image. Jack Kerouac is the perfect person to write the intro to this book. Both artists worked in a similar way, using travel, speed and chance to communicate fleeting, yet deep, feelings about our complex culture. Perfectly enjoyable by anyone with an interest in American culture, but essential for those practicing documentary photography.
memorable July 3, 1998
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
when I first got this book, it was one of the five books I had to get for a history of photography class. At first, I thought it was just another photo book with images that were not very spectacular to look at. Then my eyes were opened by my teacher. In the midst of these photographs of all different kinds of people doing what we call ordinary events, lied the human spirit.America as it was , when frank set out for his journey.In the most subtle way, he is able to tell us great stories of the conflicts, and the happenings of a country that was about to go through some major changes. It is a highly recommended book, and it is very rewarding, even for the photographer at heart.
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