- Gebundene Ausgabe: 180 Seiten
- Verlag: Steidl; Auflage: Reissue (9. Juni 2008)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 386521584X
- ISBN-13: 978-3865215840
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,6 x 18,8 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 76.702 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Mitte der 50er-Jahre in einem Aufzug in Miami Beach. In einen Gedanken verloren oder ihn noch suchend blickt das Liftgirl an die Decke des Fahrstuhls. Die Anzeige der Zieletage leuchtet bereits. Gleich wird sich die Tür schließen.
Robert Franks Bildband The Americans erschien 1958 in Frankreich, ein Jahr später in den USA. 83 Schwarzweißfotografien zeigen Menschen und Szenen aus Amerika, die Frank in den Jahren 1955/56 im Rahmen eines Stipendiums der John Simon Guggenheim Foundation während einer Reise durch die 48 Bundesstaaten abgelichtet hatte. Eine Aufnahme zeigt einen Mann in einer Bar in Las Vegas vor einer Jukebox stehen. Eine andere den Blick aus einem Hotelfenster in Butte, Montana. Eine weitere ein Autokino in Detroit. Franks Fotos sind unmittelbar, offen und unabgeschlossen. Sie vermitteln immer auch etwas Gewöhnliches, was den Mythos vom Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten entschleiert und beim Erscheinen des Buches in Amerika heftige Reaktionen auslöste. Dennoch oder gerade deswegen wurde The Americans stilbildend und inspirierte eine ganze Generation vor allem amerikanischer Fotografen.
Robert Frank wurde 1924 in Zürich geboren und wanderte 1947 in die USA aus. Dort war er zunächst als Mode- und Werbefotograf sowie als Fotojournalist tätig. Durch Walker Evans inspiriert und unterstützt, erhielt er Mitte der 50er-Jahre als erster Europäer das Guggenheim-Stipendium. Seit den 60er-Jahren arbeitet er zunehmend mit dem Medium Film, auf das er in seinem fotografischen Spätwerk immer wieder Bezug nimmt.
In einem einleitenden Text zu The Americans schreibt Jack Kerouac, einer der bekanntesten Autoren der Beatgeneration: "Wer diese Bilder nicht mag, mag auch keine Gedichte..." Mit seiner rasanten Sprache erweckt er die Fotoaufnahmen Franks zum Leben und stellt letztendlich die Frage: "Das liebe kleine einsame Liftgirl, das in einem Aufzug voller Schemen seufzend nach oben blickt, wie ist ihr Name und wo wohnt sie?" --Stefan Meyer -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Robert Frank, geboren 1924 in Zürich, ging 1947 in die Vereinigten Staaten. 1958 erschien sein bahnbrechendes Werk The Americans, das aus ganz neuer Perspektive auf Amerika blickte und die Ästhetik des Fotobuchs revolutionierte. Weitere seiner Bücher sind Black White and Things und The Lines of My Hand. Zu seinen wichtigsten Filmen zählen Pull My Daisy und Cocksucker Blues. Robert Frank lebt in New York und im kanadischen Nova Scotia.
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this is a book every photographer or anyone who wants to be a photographer should own. All eighty three of them are worth close study, although they work together to produce something much greater than their sum. 'The Americans' is not a book of photographs, it is a book made of photographs, a sequence of pictures to be seen as a whole. It received a mauling on publication from the critics - partly no doubt because of the technical 'deficiencies' or stylistic choices mentioned above, but mainly because it showed a personal view of America that was both foreign and uncongenial to the comfortable middle class which both produced and consumed 'culture' in America. The general public certainly failed to appreciate it at the time and probably still do not, though it has sold steadily for many years, becoming a classic, with several re-issues to keep it in the catalogues.
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RF's masterpiece as work in progress
27. März 2002
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Like an elusive text in search of itself, Robert Frank's 1958 book The Americans has changed format each of the four times it's changed publishers. From the text heavy French version to the oversized aperture reprint, Frank has continued to refine his work each time it appears in print.
In the Scalo version, the place-name captions have been removed from the pages opposite the photographs and collected in the back of the book. Forget any ideas you might have of Frank's book being a travelogue. In place of the itinerary, the Scalo edition finally establishes the ORDER of the book's photographs as the crucial ingredient in Frank's complex vision of America. The 83-photograph sequence cuts between elliptical narrative of the open road and comparative sociology of dead-end lives as Frank turns free association into inescapable logic and then back again. The result is the most masterful combination of photographs in book form.
The subjects of Frank's photographs roam this fractured typology like prophets locked in an unstable time loop. Geography no longer takes center stage as the formative element of their photographic selves. In some small but significant way, the americans in the Scalo edition reclaim the intentionality of their sadness, anger, and alienation. The bitter and often unwilling nature of their engagements with Frank take center stage, each as profound an act of refusal as Frank's own denunciation of the pasteboard optimism of '50s America.
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The definitive "The Americans"
28. Juli 2008
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We're lucky to have this edition. Robert Frank is an old man with health issues now. That he is healthy enough to oversee this work is wonderful. Everything about this edition - especially in comparison to the 2007 Delpine edition I purchased earlier this year - is first-rate. I wish I had known this was coming out!
The book is a little smaller than the Delpine, but that's the only real negative (if it is one) I can think of. The main thing to me is that the photos themselves are how Frank intended them to look. Gone are the overly-lightened faces that plague the Delpine book. This is a pet peeve of mine that kills many photos in this Photoshop age. This is very obvious in the New Orleans trolley photo. In the Delpine work, the faces of the white passengers are totally washed out, and the black faces are awkwardly lightened (someone apparently thought they were helping Frank's work). That's all corrected here. In this Steidl edition things are shown as they were intended. One can even see details in the face of the man at far left, even though it is partially obscured by a window reflection.
Also, on several photos more of the frame is visible. This was most noticeable to me in the Butte, Montana photo of the woman looking out the car window, with several children in the back seat. A good portion of the left side of the photo is now visible, along with more shown on the top and bottom. The new crop just seems more "right." Not too mention that the face of the child in the middle of the photo is too light in the older edition.
Simply put, comparing the two editions is an eye opener. I first saw these photos years ago in a much earlier edition (I believe it was the 1969 Aperture work) and I still marvel at the depth of the images in that printing. I don't have that edition in hand, so I can't do a direct comparison, but I believe the Steidl images are much closer to that ideal. Franks prefers his images a little on the flat, low-key side. Another difference is that the photos are now printed on a non-glossy paper. I was surprised at this at first, but now I believe it works much better for this book.
In short, if you want an accurate, lovingly-printed edition of The Americans at a reasonable price, this is the one. Highly recommended.
The book is a little smaller than the Delpine, but that's the only real negative (if it is one) I can think of. The main thing to me is that the photos themselves are how Frank intended them to look. Gone are the overly-lightened faces that plague the Delpine book. This is a pet peeve of mine that kills many photos in this Photoshop age. This is very obvious in the New Orleans trolley photo. In the Delpine work, the faces of the white passengers are totally washed out, and the black faces are awkwardly lightened (someone apparently thought they were helping Frank's work). That's all corrected here. In this Steidl edition things are shown as they were intended. One can even see details in the face of the man at far left, even though it is partially obscured by a window reflection.
Also, on several photos more of the frame is visible. This was most noticeable to me in the Butte, Montana photo of the woman looking out the car window, with several children in the back seat. A good portion of the left side of the photo is now visible, along with more shown on the top and bottom. The new crop just seems more "right." Not too mention that the face of the child in the middle of the photo is too light in the older edition.
Simply put, comparing the two editions is an eye opener. I first saw these photos years ago in a much earlier edition (I believe it was the 1969 Aperture work) and I still marvel at the depth of the images in that printing. I don't have that edition in hand, so I can't do a direct comparison, but I believe the Steidl images are much closer to that ideal. Franks prefers his images a little on the flat, low-key side. Another difference is that the photos are now printed on a non-glossy paper. I was surprised at this at first, but now I believe it works much better for this book.
In short, if you want an accurate, lovingly-printed edition of The Americans at a reasonable price, this is the one. Highly recommended.
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A Masterpiece That Revolutionized Photography
24. Dezember 2004
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Robert Frank with this small little book changed the course of photography. He changed the way people take photographs. He changed the way we look at photographs. He changed the definition of what was an acceptable or good photograph. The way Monet and Picasso changed how one could paint, Frank changed the way one could photograph.
How did he do this? He basically introduced the "icongraphic photograph" to the world. Take for example, his picture in the Americans of a political rally for Ike. It is of a man standing against a blank wall, playing the tuba. But the tuba's opening obscures his face, all you see is the big blank dark opening of the the tuba where his eyes and mouth are suppossed to be. And then right behind the tuba, almost coming out of it, a flag, an American flag, though shapeless, and formless and it snakes out of the picture. On the man's lapel is a big "For Ike" button. At the time, this was a radical photograph and statement about politics and the role of the individual in political life; remember this was 1957.
There are many many many other photographs like this throughout the Americans: St. Peter taking on City Hall. The American flag covering the faces of the people at a parade. The jukebox everywhere. The signs screaming "No Negroes Allowed" while on the next page is a photograph of an older black women holding in her arms, caring for, a young white baby. Frank clearly asking, screaming, why is it okay for them to care your for babies but not okay for them to use the same toilet as you?
It is a subtle but very powerful book. And once you see it, once you get it, you can never see a photograph the same way again.
He has influenced every photographer who has come after him.
Without Robert Frank there would be no Gary Winograd, Eugene Richards, Gilles Peres, William Klien, Bruce Davidson, Alex Webb, Salgado, Danny Lyon, James Nachtwey, Lauren Greenblatt, Ron Haviv, or Herb Ritts.
This book is the starting point for anyone interested in photography, or at least photography after 1958 when this book was first published.
How did he do this? He basically introduced the "icongraphic photograph" to the world. Take for example, his picture in the Americans of a political rally for Ike. It is of a man standing against a blank wall, playing the tuba. But the tuba's opening obscures his face, all you see is the big blank dark opening of the the tuba where his eyes and mouth are suppossed to be. And then right behind the tuba, almost coming out of it, a flag, an American flag, though shapeless, and formless and it snakes out of the picture. On the man's lapel is a big "For Ike" button. At the time, this was a radical photograph and statement about politics and the role of the individual in political life; remember this was 1957.
There are many many many other photographs like this throughout the Americans: St. Peter taking on City Hall. The American flag covering the faces of the people at a parade. The jukebox everywhere. The signs screaming "No Negroes Allowed" while on the next page is a photograph of an older black women holding in her arms, caring for, a young white baby. Frank clearly asking, screaming, why is it okay for them to care your for babies but not okay for them to use the same toilet as you?
It is a subtle but very powerful book. And once you see it, once you get it, you can never see a photograph the same way again.
He has influenced every photographer who has come after him.
Without Robert Frank there would be no Gary Winograd, Eugene Richards, Gilles Peres, William Klien, Bruce Davidson, Alex Webb, Salgado, Danny Lyon, James Nachtwey, Lauren Greenblatt, Ron Haviv, or Herb Ritts.
This book is the starting point for anyone interested in photography, or at least photography after 1958 when this book was first published.
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