IN AMERICA.FRANK, ROBERT

Because of the importance of Robert Frank's The Americans/ because he turned to filmmaking in 1959, the same year the book appeared in the United States/ and because he made very different kinds of pictures when he returned to still photography in the 1970s, most of Frank's American work of the 1950s is poorly known. This book, based on the important Frank collection at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, is the first to focus on that work. Its careful sequence of 131 plates integrates 22 photographs from The Am ericans wit...[Read more]