The American Dream: An Anthology of Writings by Robert Frank Jr.

Stephanie Haughey: Famous book about photographers pictures in black and white.

United Kingdom on Aug 24, 2023

isaac: Este hombre ha reflejado toda una generacion y cultura con este increible libro con fotos espectacularas.

Spain on Jun 10, 2023

Rafael Baquedano Charad: Antes de comprar este libro, recomiendo investigar sobre esta obra de Robert Frank. Es vital entender de qué se trata para no llevarse una sorpresa desagradable. Somos muchos los que despreciamos estas fotos de Frank hasta que entendimos de qué va The Americans.
Es muy expresivo y personal. Las fotografías pueden parecer obras individuales, pero hay conexiones entre ellas y no es difícil encontrarlas.
Es un gran libro porque cambió la forma de hacer en la fotografía documental.

United States on May 09, 2023

Hamza ZIDANE: An epic photobook that every photographer should see

United States on May 05, 2023

Daniel: Llegó antes de la fecha prometida
La encuadernación, papel, impresión... todo de muy buena calidad
Del libro en si mismo no puedo agregar nada que no se haya dicho ya: un trabajo imprescindible dentro de la fotografía del siglo XX
Recomendable 100%

Spain on Mar 15, 2023

davide baraldi: Ho appena finito di leggere 'The Americans' di Robert Frank e sono rimasto colpito dalla sua bellezza e potenza.
Questo libro di fotografie cattura la vita quotidiana negli Stati Uniti negli anni '50 e presenta una visione unica e spesso scomoda della società americana.
Le immagini sono straordinariamente potenti e rappresentano un'epoca che non esiste più.
Consiglio vivamente questo libro a chiunque sia interessato alla fotografia, alla storia e alla cultura americana.

Italy on Feb 10, 2023

Wm. J. Shea: This book is the cornerstone foe seeing it as it is. Not a primer for image quality, but it shows the need for getting the shot regardless of other considerations. Much can be learned from the presentation of these images.

United States on Feb 08, 2023

ddelaney2011: The photos are assembled in a way to convey a certain narrative.

The most interesting aspect is the story of the photographer’s arrest in Arkansas. You can google that.

I did buy this book as am currently reading a bio of Robert Capa. And this photographer is mentioned.

I am glad I bought it though and am working on photography as a hobby.

United States on Apr 01, 2022

David Rothwell: Glossing through the pages of one of Americas most profound documents, photographed by one of the most pioneering photographers of his time. A series of eighty-three black and white photographs taken during 1955 -1956 and first published in 1959 and accompanied by a poetic essay written by the most seminal writer of the beat generation Jack Kerouac. A writer with divine improvisational prose, no doubts then that this conceptual photo-book became the marker for future photographic monographs. It is in itself a visual poem, for Robert Franks' photographs are indeed an ode to the real, a homage to the human condition. He scratched the surface of this iconic landscape and revealed the people of a nation plagued by racism and relentless exponential consumption, although this reality defines beauty. It encompasses everything America ever was, a dream, a dream that belies ambiguity. However, Frank captured America's truth, and from a journalistic perspective that is enlightening. So what of the photographs themselves? Well, over a two-year road trip, Robert Frank had amassed twenty-eight thousand photographs, editing down to eighty-three for the book. A remarkable feat I'm sure which...

United Kingdom on Nov 19, 2019

Gio: If you want to understand the USA of today, 2009, there's no better time and place to start than with America in the mid 1950s, when the "post-war-cold-war-post-cold-war" culture first took shape, at the threshold of: rock and roll and youth culture; clvil rights, the end of Jim Crow, 'crossover' culture; global immigration, the culture of diversity; college as a normal expectation for lower-middle class kids; the Beat Generation, Hippies, the turn-on-drop-out culture; two kids, two income families, two cars in every garage, and above all a TV in every home. You'd have been quite a prophet if you'd foreseen 'what we are today' on the basis of 'what we were in 1950,' but the seeds were there.

If you want to 'see' the 1950s, you can do it. You don't need a time-machine. The 85 photographs in this famous collection, taken 'on the road' by the German-Swiss Robert Frank, are worth at least 85,000 words. All in black-and-white, eclectic and experimental in darkroom technology, almost none of them of 'famous' people or familiar sights, these carefully and thoughtfully sequenced photographs reveal more of the shadows upon the American Dream than the sparkling spot lights, but they...

United States on May 18, 2009