false<![CDATA[The Americans]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662480m/585707.jpg5857077Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a couple at city hall in Reno, Nevada, and the despair of the present in a grimy roofscape. He saw the roiling racial tension, glamour, and beauty, and, perhaps because Frank himself was on the road, he was particularly attuned to Americans' love for cars. Funeral-goers lean against a shiny sedan, lovers kiss on a beach blanket in front of their parked car, young boys perch in the back seat at a drive-in movie. A sports car under a drop cloth is framed by two California palm trees; on the next page, a blanket is draped over a car accident victim's body in Arizona.<p> Robert Frank's Americans reappear 40 years after they were initially published in this exquisite volume by Scalo. Each photograph (there are more than 80 of them) stands alone on a page, while the caption information is included at the back of the book, allowing viewers an unfettered look at the images. Jack Kerouac's original introduction, commissioned when the photographer showed the writer his work while sitting on a sidewalk one night outside of a party, provides the only accompanying text. Kerouac's words add narrative dimension to Frank's imagery while in turn the photographs themselves perfectly illustrate the writer's own work. 12682311978The Americanstotal:352|5:282|4:55|3:12|2:2|1:1|35216714823558falsefalseTue Aug 18 16:38:23 -0700 2009Thu Nov 12 12:24:38 -0800 2009
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This is one of my favorite pics from Robert Frank's collection of photos in his classic "The Americans." It's a beautiful chronicle of America in 1955-1956. It's obvious that Frank liked capturing faces, expressions, moods. The introduction was written by Jack Kerouac, where he...more...]]>
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50falsefalseSat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986Sat Nov 10 06:14:55 -0800 2007Sat Nov 10 06:27:58 -0800 2007 Also, for a book without words, it has a killer introduction b...more...]]>
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50falsefalseWed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008Sun Nov 09 18:07:05 -0800 2008Sun Nov 09 18:08:07 -0800 2008 Introduction by Jack Kerouac is vinatge stuff - where no one ever yawns, and they've been up all night *digging* different new ideas, and now the dawn is coming up golden on each day, all day, all night...through the golden et...more...]]>
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I'm not sure how I feel about "reading" a photobook. As an activity, it should be called something else.]]>
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i discovered this book in high school. great portraits taken in the 1950s-1960s
robert frank was sort of a beatnik so it's an interesting visual document of that movement
