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ROBERT FRANK THE AMERICANS

A celebrated return of Robert Frank's seminal photobook The Americans to Aperture ' s
catalog--one of the most important bodies of photographic work ever made. In the nearly seven
decades since its publication in France in 1958  then in the United States in 1959  Robert
Frank's The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American
photography. Through eighty-three photographs taken across the country  Frank unveiled an
America that had gone previously unacknowledged--confronting its people with an underbelly of
racial inequality  corruption  injustice  and the stark reality of the American dream. Frank's
point of view--at once startling and tenacious--is imbued with humanity and lyricism  painting
a poignant and incomparable portrait of the nation at a turning point in history.This edition
of The Americans is a celebrated return of an iconic title to Aperture's catalog  more than a
half-century after the Aperture and Museum of Modern Art edition was published in 1968.
Presented on the centennial of Frank's birth and coinciding with a major exhibition at the
Museum of Modern Art  it has been produced following the finest tritone printing from the 2008
edition for which Frank was personally involved in every step of the design and production.
Frank's exacting vision  distinct style  and poetic insight changed the course of
twentieth-century photography  and influenced subsequent generations of photographers 
including Lee Friedlander  Nan Goldin  Danny Lyon  Joel Meyerowitz  Ed Ruscha  and Garry
Winogrand. Now extolled as one of the most groundbreaking photobooks of all time  The Americans
remains as powerful and provocative as it was upon publication and continues to resonate with
audiences today.

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