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"First published in France in 1958, then the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill served by their politicians, and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just his subject matter - cars, jukeboxes, and even the road itself - that redefined the icons of America; it was also his…
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1 edition- Other · German · 2009National Gallery of Art · 506 pages · 9783865218063
Social life and customsExhibitionsAmerican National characteristicsNational characteristics, AmericanArtistic PhotographyPhotography, ArtisticPictorial worksUnited states, history, pictorial works
