Main entry:

Greenough, Sarah, 1951- author.

Title & Author:

Looking in : Robert Frank's The Americans / Sarah Greenough ; with contributing essays by Stuart Alexander [and 6 others].

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; [Göttingen] : Steidl, 2009.

Description:

xxi, 506 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 30 cm

Notes:
This edition also includes reproductions of the contact sheets for "The Americans", map, chronology, appendix, correspondence and archival documents.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Zurich to New York, 1924-1954. Resisting intelligence : Zurich to New York / Sarah Greenough ; Robert Frank and Louis Faurer / Anne Wilkes Tucker ; Robert Frank and Edward Steichen / Stuart Alexander -- Guggenheim fellowship, 1955-1957. Disordering the senses : Guggenheim fellowship / Sarah Greenough ; Robert Frank and Gotthard Schuh / Martin Gasser ; Robert Frank and Walker Evans / Jeff L. Rosenheim -- The Americans, 1958-1959. Transforming destiny into awareness : the Americans / Sarah Greenough ; Robert Frank and Robert Delpire ; Interview with Robert Delpire / Michel Frizot ; Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac / Luc Sante -- Destroying The Americans, 1960-2008. Blowing down Bleecker Street : destroying The Americans / Sarah Greenough ; The silence of recognition : exhibiting Robert Frank's Americans / Philip Brookman.
Dust jacket and publisher's band.

Exhibitions:

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, January 18-April 26, 2009; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 16-August 23, 2009; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 22-December 27, 2009.
Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Jan. 18-Apr. 26, 2009; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 16-Aug. 23, 2009; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 22-Dec. 27, 2009, this edition also includes reproductions of the contact sheets for "The Americans", map, chronology, appendix, correspondence and archival documents.

Summary:

"First published in France in 1958, then the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill served by their politicians, and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just his subject matter - cars, jukeboxes, and even the road itself - that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally, and linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was fifty years ago."--Jacket

ISBN:

9783865218063 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
3865218067 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
9783865217486 (soft cover ; alk. paper)
3865217486 (soft cover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Frank, Robert, 1924-2019. Américains. English.
Frank, Robert, 1924-2019 Exhibitions.
Frank, Robert, 1924- Expositions.
Frank, Robert, 1924-2019
Frank, Robert, 1924- Américains.
Frank, Robert, 1924- Exhibitions.
Américains (Frank, Robert)
National characteristics, American Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Américains Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Manners and customs
National characteristics, American
Fotografi Förenta staterna 1900-talet.
Fotokonst Förenta staterna 1900-talet.
Fotografer Förenta staterna 1900-talet.
United States Social life and customs 1945-1970 Pictorial works Exhibitions.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes 1945-1970 Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
United States
Förenta staterna vardagsliv och traditioner 1945-1970 bildverk.
Frank, Robert Americans Exhibitions
Frank, Robert Exhibitions
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Alexander, Stuart, contributor.
Brookman, Philip, contributor.
Frizot, Michel, contributor.
Gasser, Martin, 1955- contributor.
Rosenheim, Jeff, contributor.
Sante, Lucy, contributor.
Tucker, Anne, contributor.
Alexander, Stuart
National Gallery of Art (U.S.), issuing body, host institution.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, host institution.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
Steidl Verlag, publisher.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Robert Frank's The Americans

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265546
Call No.: BIB 197006
Status: Available