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In 1958, the first edition of Robert Frank's The

Americans was published in Paris. Les Américains

contained Frank's 83 photographs in the same sequence as all

subsequent editions, with the image on the right hand page, but

juxtaposed with historical texts about American society and

politics, gathered by Alain Bosquet. The following year, in the

first American edition, the French texts were removed and an

introduction by Jack Kerouac was added. Over the subsequent 50

years, The Americans has been republished in many editions,

in numerous languages, with a variety of cover designs, and even in

a range of sizes. It is the most famous photography book ever

published, and it changed the face of the medium forever.

Robert Frank discussed with his publisher,

Gerhard Steidl, the idea of producing a new edition using modern

scanning and the finest tritone printing. The starting point was to

bring original prints from New York to G?ttingen, Germany, where

Steidl is based.

In July 2007, Frank visited G?ttingen. A new format for the book

was worked out and new typography selected. A new cover was

designed and Frank chose the book cloth, foil for embossing, and

the endpaper. Most significantly, as he has done for every edition

of The Americans, Frank changed the cropping of many of the

photographs, usually including more information. Two images were

changed completely from the original 1958 and 1959 editions.

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Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a couple at city hall in Reno, Nevada, and the despair of the present in a grimy roofscape. He saw the roiling racial tension, glamour, and beauty, and, perhaps because Frank himself was on the road, he was particularly attuned to Americans' love for cars. Funeral-goers lean against a shiny sedan, lovers kiss on a beach blanket in front of their parked car, young boys perch in the back seat at a drive-in movie. A sports car under a drop cloth is framed by two California palm trees; on the next page, a blanket is draped over a car accident victim's body in Arizona.

Robert Frank's Americans reappear 40 years after they were initially published in this exquisite volume by Scalo. Each photograph (there are more than 80 of them) stands alone on a page, while the caption information is included at the back of the book, allowing viewers an unfettered look at the images. Jack Kerouac's original introduction, commissioned when the photographer showed the writer his work while sitting on a sidewalk one night outside of a party, provides the only accompanying text. Kerouac's words add narrative dimension to Frank's imagery while in turn the photographs themselves perfectly illustrate the writer's own work.

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Reprint edition of Robert Frank: The Americans, Scalo Publishers 1998.

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