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Robert Frank: The Americans

Door Jack Kerouac

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#347008-KK33
Titel
Robert Frank: The Americans
Auteur
Kerouac, Jack (introduction)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Göttingen : Steidel
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
386521584X
ISBN13
9783865215840
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, dust jacket, illustratedwith numerous (full page) b/w photographs, unpaged, oblong (circa 19x21.5cm).
Samenvatting

First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Franks 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 Franks 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 in
... (Lees verder)novative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative Today as it was fifty-six years ago.
Pagina's
180
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 45,00

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