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È il 1955 e un giovane fotografo europeo, Robert Frank, ottiene una borsa di studio dalla Fondazione Guggenheim per realizzare un lavoro fotografico sull'America. Frank percorrerà tutto l'immenso paese, e tra il 1955 e il 1956 "toccherà" ben 48 stati diversi. Le strade, i volti delle persone incontrate, le piazze delle città, i bar e i negozi, i marciapiedi, i particolari più insignificanti passano e si fermano di fronte all'obiettivo intelligente e partecipe del fotografo. Il risultato sarà "Gli americani", un libro che consacra il suo autore come un maestro della storia della fotografia. Il volume rappresenta un vero "poema per immagini" dedicato alla strada americana e alla sua nuova e sconsolata epopea; un reportage che, come pochi altri, ha veramente segnato un'epoca diventando per generazioni di fotografi il riferimento principale da cui partire per fotografare, per viaggiare, per conoscere con lo sguardo.
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- Pagine: 180
- Data di uscita: 15-05-2008
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Looking In In 1955 - 1956, Robert Frank (b. 1924), an American photographer born in Switzerland, restlessly crossed the United States several times by car to photograph people and places as he found them. He gradually culled through thousands of photographs to select 83 images for his book, "The Amer Leggi tutto
This is one of my favorite pics from Robert Frank's collection of photos in his classic "The Americans." It's a beautiful chronicle of America in 1955-1956. It's obvious that Frank liked capturing faces, expressions, moods. The introduction was written by Jack Kerouac, where he romanticizes abou
To quote Kerouac from his intro, "To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes." These are wonderful timeless images. A classic work to be savored.
I heard this morning that the photographer Robert Frank died two days ago, and that got me to look at this book. It is his most famous work. Though it was first published in 1958, I think it still stands up as a great book. He broke some technical “rules” such as chopping an arm of a man in one of t Leggi tutto
As a homage to Robert Frank, who died last week at age 94 I took down this seminal book of photographs which he took on a cross country road trip in 1955-1956. The photos still affect us over 60 years later. Frank showed the dark underbelly of America with its segregation, dead-end jobs and lives... Leggi tutto
Excellent photographs by Frank; shitty, pompous, self-indulgent introduction by Kerouac.
Success of the photos of the American is not only limited to the representation of emotions of the people or on the emotional impact on somebody seeing those, not also limited to symbolisms only. There is an aspect of documentarian feature also, where the photos show different "American characters", Leggi tutto
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