The Americans.

by Frank, Robert; Introduction by Jack Kerouac

$9,200 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: Grove Press, 1959. First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Jack Kerouac wrote in his preface of The Americans, Robert Frank he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes. Frank s Americans eventually achieved legendary status as the most renowned photobook of all It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank s masterpiece (Parr Badger I:247). From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them into four chapters With these photographs, he later wrote, I have attempted to show a cross-section of the American population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal Such a simple intention for a book that would so alter the course of modern photography (Roth, 150).

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Year: 1959
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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