Robert Frank’s ’The Americans’
The Art of Documentary Photography
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- Contents
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Acknowledgements
Foreword: Robert Frank
Eamonn McCabe
Introduction
Part One: America and The Americans
1. Frank and the ‘50s
2. Developing The Americans
3. A Divided World: ‘Art’ and ‘Documentary’ Photography
4. The Creation, Selection and Programming of The Americans’ Images: All That Jazz
5. Image and Text
Part Two: Themes in The Americans
6. People of the Flag
7. On the Road
8. Losing My Religion: New Icons For a New Civilization
9. The Americans’ Response To The Family of Man Exhibition
10. The Americans and the Promotional Images of the Standard Oil Company
11. The Primacy of the Visual
Part Three: The Americans As a Photographic Sequence
12. Tracing the Lines of His Hand
Conclusion
References
Photographs in The Americans
Index
"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."
Art: Photography
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