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Robert Frank's The Americans : the art of documentary photography /
In the mid 50s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo-book, The Americans, represents a seminal moment in both photography and in Americ...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bristol ; Chicago :
Intellect,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Robert Frank; 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 Company11 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; Back Cover.