Black White and Things

by Robert Frank

Somber people and black events, quiet people and peaceful places and the things people have come in contact with..

Genres: Photography, Art

72 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

About the author

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Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ ... ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.

Reviews

[Hunter Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful and clearly foreshadows the layout of "The Americans" a few years later.

[Wayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great photographs, but the size of images (too large) and print quality (blacks not black) do not represent prints seen at the recent Frank exhibit.

[Alex Siladi · Rating 5 out of 5]

incredible