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- The Americans
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Also available as a Chinese edition and German edition
Robert Frank’s The Americans was first published on May 15, 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris. It featured 83 of Frank’s photographs taken in America in 1955 and 1956, accompanied by writings in French about American political and social history selected by Alain Bosquet. Delpire’s Les Américains formed part of the Encyclopédie essentielle series, which presented foreign countries to a French audience. Each of Frank’s photographs in this edition is placed on a right-hand page, with the texts on the left-hand pages.
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- Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans – Expanded Edition
- First published in France in 1958, then in 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.
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- Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans - Softcover Edition
- This richly illustrated softcover edition of Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” contains several engaging essays by curator Sarah Greenough that explore the roots of this seminal book, Frank’s travels on a Guggenheim fellowship, the sequencing of The Americans, and the book’s impact on his later career. In addition, essays by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Stuart Alexander, Martin Gasser, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Michel Frizot, and Luc Sante offer focused analyses of Frank’s relationship with Louis Faurer, Edward Steichen, Gotthard Schuh, Walker Evans, Robert Delpire, and Jack Kerouac, while Philip Brookman writes about his work with Frank on several exhibitions in the last thirty years. This softcover edition also reproduces many of Frank’s earlier photographic sequences, as well as all of the photographs in The Americans, and selected later works.