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&sq=&lang=&file=File:The_Americans_(2nd_printing).jpg) The Americans, 1969 2nd printing | |
| Author | Robert Frank |
|---|---|
| Language | French, English |
| Subject | North American society |
| Genre | Photography |
| Publisher | Robert Delpire, Grove Press, Steidl |
Publication date | 1958 |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Hardback |
| ISBN | 978-3-865215-84-0 (Steidl edition) |
The Americans is a photographic book by Robert Frank which was highly influential in post-war American photography. It was first published in France in 1958, and the following year in the United States. The photographs were notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society. The book as a whole created a complicated portrait of the period that was viewed as skeptical of contemporary values and evocative of ubiquitous loneliness. "Frank set out with his Guggenheim Grant to do something new and unconstrained by commercial diktats" and made "a now classic photography book in the iconoclastic spirit of the Beats".[1]
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