Looking in: Robert Frank's The Americans

Looking in: Robert Frank's The AmericansPublished to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009 and 2010, Looking In: Robert Franks The Americans celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this prescient book. Drawing on newly examined archival sources, it provides a fascinating in depth examination of the making of the photographs and the books construction, using vintage contact sheets, work

bronze and copper

during which Simon travelled the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories

following the dictum ""form follows function""

000 people living in squalid conditions

and technological―that shaped the movement under discussion

What might this presentation say about South Africa

"In this remarkable portrait of a city

this edition adds a chapter of unpublished work found in a recently resurfaced cache of negatives and recontextualizes this pivotal book for our time

resourcefulness

launched its first print edition in February 2017

and Greer Valley

and Stevenson