Description: CHECK OUT OUR STORE FOR MORE HARD TO FIND, RARE AND SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART BOOK DESCRIPTION: New York, NY: Grossman Publishers / Aperture, 1969. Hardcover. Second American Edition (preceded only by the Grove Press edition published in 1958) 83 Photographs by Robert Frank with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Revised and Enlarged Edition of Frank's classic, moving photo-portrait of American life, from drive-ins, diners and Angels through cowboys, casinos and cocktails. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. SIGNED by Robert Frank with place and date "NYC May 18 02" (on this date in 2002 K&M Camera on lower Broadway had a book signing for several photographers (Bruce Davidson, Danny Lyon, Ralph Gibson, Joel Sternfeld, Larry Fink and others), and it was there that the book was signed by Robert Frank. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine dust jacket showing rubbing and soiling to panels and edges, a small chip to lower rear center/margin and another to upper rear corner.Rober Frank's Americans "...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 Franks's masterpiece."--Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. I . "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.CHECK OUT OUR STORE FOR MORE HARD TO FIND, RARE AND SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART
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Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, SIGNED
Subject: Art & Photography
Year Printed: 1969
