Robert Frank's 'The Americans'

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The Art of Documentary Photography

Jonathan Day

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Intellect Books
15 February 2011

Photography & photographs; Individual photographers; Photographic equipment & techniques; Special kinds of photography

In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across 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 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 comprehensive analysis places it thoroughly in the context of contemporary photography, literature, music, and advertising from its own period through the present.

By: Jonathan Day
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9781841503158
ISBN 10: 1841503150
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 15 February 2011
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Eamonn McCabe Introduction Part One: America and The Americans Chapter 1: Frank and the 50s Chapter 2: Developing The Americans Chapter 3: 'The Americans' as the love child of ‘art’ and ‘documentary’ Chapter 4: The creation, selection and programming of The Americans images Chapter 5: Image and text Part Two: Themes in The Americans Chapter 5: People of the Flag Chapter 6: On the Road Chapter 7: Losing my religion: new icons for a new civilisation Chapter 8: The Americans and The Family of Man Chapter 9: The Americans and the promotional images of Standard Oil Chapter 10: The primacy of the visual Part Three: The Americans as a photographic sequence Conclusion

Jonathan Day teaches Documentary Photography to postgraduates and is senior lecturer in visual communications and theoretical and historical studies in art and design.

Reviews for Robert Frank's 'The Americans': The Art of Documentary Photography

Robert Frank never did say very much and there is not a single word by him in 'The Americans'. Jonathan Day in this book has expertly taken over as Frank's narrator [...] As Jack Kerouac says in his introduction to 'The Americans', 'to Robert Frank I now give this message: you got eyes'. And now we have the words. -- Eamonn McCabe, Picture Editor of The Guardian from 1988 to 2001