THE AMERICANS Robert Frank Jack Kerouac 1978 Aperture Large Format HC DJ

Description: Robert Frank Jack Kerouac The Americans An Aperture Monograph First Large Format Edition 1978 Rare Hardcover With the Dust Jacket The Americans. Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. An Aperture Monograph. New York. 1978. First large format edition. Oblong quarto. Black cloth-bound hardcover, silver title to spine and blind stamp title to front. With the illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Robert Frank; introduction by Jack Kerouac. 181 pages; 84 b&w plates printed recto only; 11.25 x 9.25 inches. Bibliography, filmography. The first time these images were reproduced at this larger size; otherwise, a faithful new edition of one of the most important photobooks of the 20th-century."...paved the way for three decades of photographs exploring the personal poetics of lived experience. 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 and Badger, The Photobook: A History , Vol. 1. "It was Frank's The Americans that made the photographic book into an artform in its own right. Frank was following a lead set by Morris' book [The Inhabitants] and, especially, by Evans' American Photographs, both of which are designed to let pictures play off each other in a way that controls and reinforces their effect on the viewer. Even Klein's New York book displays this tendency. But Frank's goes much further, creating a denser, richer, deeper structure of images than any book before it."--Colin Westerbeck in Michel Frizot, et. al., The New History of Photography. Robert Frank, who was born in Switzerland, produced this defining and influential collection of photo-images of America in the 1950's. This edition is closer to the same physical size as the original American and French editions than subsequent editions. It also contains an additional section on Frank's first four films, and as Frank explains: "The filmstrips..., included as a new section in this edition, represent for me the continuation of my work." Kerouac's introduction sums up these fifties photographs best: "That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, that's what Robert Frank has captured in these tremendous photographs taken as he traveled on the road around practically forty-eight states in an old used car........" Good Plus in a good plus dust jacket. A nice hardcover copy of this beautifully reproduced Frank monograph. Light wear to the boards. Silver lettering very bright. Minor soiling. Rubbing to the edges. Internally, darkening to the edges. Tanning to the page edges. Light soiling. Binding tight. Text in English. Clean and bright photographs. Beautifully printed. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light wear. Few light creases and scuff marks. Diagonal crease to the front DJ flap. Scratches visible in the light. Few soil spots. Edgewear. Small tears to the DJ corners and to the head and heel of the spine. Not price clipped. A nice copy of this later edition of Frank's seminal collection in a large format. Beautifully printed. Proud to own. A true find. Uncommon hardcover copy with the scarce dust jacket. 1978 edition. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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