Day, Jonathan.
Robert Frank's The Americans The Art of Documentary Photography. [electronic resource] : - Bristol : Intellect, 2011. - 1 online resource (200 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Robert Frank; Introduction; Part One: America and The Americans; 1 Frank and the '50s; 2 Developing The Americans; 3 A Divided World: 'Art' and 'Documentary' Photography; 4 The Creation, Selection and Programming of The Americans' Images: All That Jazz; 5 Image and Text; Part Two: Themes in The Americans; 6 People of the Flag; 7 On the Road; 8 Losing My Religion: New Icons For a New Civilization; 9 The Americans' Response To The Family of Man Exhibition 10 The Americans and the Promotional Images of the Standard Oil Company11 The Primacy of the Visual; Part Three: The Americans As a Photographic Sequence; 12 Tracing the Lines of His Hand; Conclusion; References; Photographs in The Americans; Index; Back Cover;
In the mid 50s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo-book, The Americans, represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. To mark the book's fiftieth anniversary, Jonathan Day revisits this pivotal work and contributes a thoughtful and revealing critical commentary. Though the importance of The Americans has been widely acknowledged, it still retains much of its mystery. This compr
9786612905414
Documentary photography.
Fine Arts.
Electronic books.
TR820.5
770.92 / JON
Robert Frank's The Americans The Art of Documentary Photography. [electronic resource] : - Bristol : Intellect, 2011. - 1 online resource (200 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Robert Frank; Introduction; Part One: America and The Americans; 1 Frank and the '50s; 2 Developing The Americans; 3 A Divided World: 'Art' and 'Documentary' Photography; 4 The Creation, Selection and Programming of The Americans' Images: All That Jazz; 5 Image and Text; Part Two: Themes in The Americans; 6 People of the Flag; 7 On the Road; 8 Losing My Religion: New Icons For a New Civilization; 9 The Americans' Response To The Family of Man Exhibition 10 The Americans and the Promotional Images of the Standard Oil Company11 The Primacy of the Visual; Part Three: The Americans As a Photographic Sequence; 12 Tracing the Lines of His Hand; Conclusion; References; Photographs in The Americans; Index; Back Cover;
In the mid 50s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo-book, The Americans, represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. To mark the book's fiftieth anniversary, Jonathan Day revisits this pivotal work and contributes a thoughtful and revealing critical commentary. Though the importance of The Americans has been widely acknowledged, it still retains much of its mystery. This compr
9786612905414
Documentary photography.
Fine Arts.
Electronic books.
TR820.5
770.92 / JON