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Robert Frank's 'The Americans' Jonathan Day

Robert Frank's 'The Americans' By Jonathan Day

Robert Frank's 'The Americans' by Jonathan Day


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Summary

In the mid-50s, Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs that resulted in The Americans, which represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. Jonathan Day revisits this work and contributes a thoughtful critical commentary.

Robert Frank's 'The Americans' Summary

Robert Frank's 'The Americans': The Art of Documentary Photography by Jonathan Day

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.

Robert Frank's 'The Americans' Reviews

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

About Jonathan Day

Jonathan Day is a senior lecturer in visual communications and theoretical and historical studies in art and design.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

GOR006338302
9781841503158
1841503150
Robert Frank's 'The Americans': The Art of Documentary Photography by Jonathan Day
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Intellect Books
2011-02-15
186
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