THE AMERICANS Robert Frank Jack Kerouac 1969 Aperture Film Stills HARDCOVER DJ

Description: Robert Frank Jack Kerouac The Americans An Aperture Book Museum Of Modern Art Edition First Revised and Enlarged Edition Hardcover with the Dust Jacket 1969 The Americans. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. First revised and enlarged edition. Aperture Museum of Modern Art, 1969. 180 pp. Small quarto. Hardcover. With the scarce dust jacket. Printed by Rapoport using Stonetone lithographic process. This 1969 edition has a 'Continuation' appended. It contains a brief introduction by Frank and is followed by a survey of his films, each represented by a page of film frame stills. Very good plus in a good plus dust jacket. "...paved the way for three decades of photographs exploring the personal poetics of lived experience. Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Franks's masterpiece."--Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1 "It was Frank's The Americans that made the photographic book into an artform in its own right. Frank was following a lead set by Morris' book [The Inhabitants] and, especially, by Evans' American Photographs, both of which are designed to let pictures play off each other in a way that controls and reinforces their effect on the viewer. Even Klein's New York book displays this tendency. But Frank's goes much further, creating a denser, richer, deeper structure of images than any book before it."--Colin Westerbeck in Michel Frizot, et. al., The New History of Photography Robert Frank, who was born in Switzerland, produced this defining and influential collection of photo-images of America in the 1950's. This edition is closer to the same physical size as the original American and French editions than subsequent editions. It also contains an additional section on Frank's first four films, and as Frank explains: "The filmstrips..., included as a new section in this edition, represent for me the continuation of my work." Kerouac's introduction sums up these fifties photographs best: "That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, that's what Robert Frank has captured in these tremendous photographs taken as he traveled on the road around practically forty-eight states in an old used car........" A very good plus copy of this beautifully reproduced Frank monograph. Hardcover binding with minimal wear. Internally, beautiful. Handled with great care. Hinges sound. Binding tight. Prior owner stamp to the bottom of the front pastedown. Just a hint of tanning to page edges. The photographs are clean and very bright. Text in English. The dust jacket has light wear. Some light soiling. Tiny stray red mark under the A in Americans. Small tear and chip to the bottom edge DJ front cover. Crease to the bottom edge. Very small tear to the top edge DJ back cover. Small thin diagonal crease to the top edge DJ back cover. Not price clipped. Now mylar protected. A great copy of this later edition of Frank's seminal collection. Beautifully printed. Proud to own. A true find.

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