ROBERT FRANK’S ICONIC PHOTOBOOK ‘THE AMERICANS’ GETS RE-RELEASE
TO celebrate 100 years since the birth of Swiss American photographer Robert Frank, his iconic photobook The Americans is to be re-released.
Born in Zurich in 1924, Frank is best known for The Americans, first published in 1958, which gave rise to a distinct new art form in the photobook.
The book, which featured 83 photographs taken across the country and an introduction by Jack Kerouac, unveiled an America that had gone previously unacknowledged – confronting its people with an underbelly of racial inequality, corruption, injustice, and the stark reality of the American dream.
At its release The Americans was highly controversial – the work was described as featuring “grainy, blurry, muddy exposures, drunken horizons”, and Popular Photography called Frank “a joyless…
