THE AMERICANS Robert Frank Original 1959 Grove Press ED Jack Kerouac HC

Description: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Robert Frank The Americans First Grove Press Edition 1959 The Americans. Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Grove Press, New York, 1959. 180 pp. Unpaginated. Oblong quarto. First edition. Original edition. Hardcover. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. 83 black and white reproductions. The Americans by Robert Frank "...paved the way for three decades of photographs exploring the personal poetics of lived experience. Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Franks's masterpiece."--Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. I "It was Frank's The Americans that made the photographic book into an artform in its own right. Frank was following a lead set by Morris' book [The Inhabitants] and, especially, by Evans' American Photographs, both of which are designed to let pictures play off each other in a way that controls and reinforces their effect on the viewer. Even Klein's New York book displays this tendency. But Frank's goes much further, creating a denser, richer, deeper structure of images than any book before it."--Colin Westerbeck in Michel Frizot, et. al., The New History of Photography Good plus. A bit of fading and wear to board extremities. Moderate fading to the spine with chipping of the gold lettering of the title. Internally, a gift inscription to the first free endpaper. Nice tight binding. One page slightly loose but still attached and intact. Overall a nice presentable copy with fairly typical flaws. Very scarce.

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