{"product_id":"books-robert-frank-the-americans-by-jack-kerouac","title":"Robert Frank: The Americans","description":"First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's \u003ci\u003eThe Americans\u003c\/i\u003e changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just Frank's subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even the road itself--that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally and linguistically, that made \u003ci\u003eThe Americans\u003c\/i\u003e so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 56 years ago.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54423484596497,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783865215840.jpg?v=1787598817","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-robert-frank-the-americans-by-jack-kerouac","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}