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This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):
Exhibitions: Robert Frank - The AmericansArtists: Robert Frank
Themes: MLC Portfolio: The Immigrant Experience
Themes: MLC Portfolio: American Identity
Object Information
First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959 at the height of the cold war, Robert Frank’s <i>The Americans</i> is one of the most important and influential photography books of the twentieth century. The Addison is one of only three American museums to own a complete set of these compelling images.
In 1955-56, a Guggenheim Fellowship allowed Frank, a Swiss-born photographer, to travel throughout the United States with the goal of creating a book of photographs that he described as a “visual study of a civilization.” An outsider looking in, Frank’s dark and grainy photographs reveal his ambivalence toward his new country. Edited down from thousands, the eighty-three carefully sequenced photographs are a raw and insightful documentation of a country in transition, both celebrating its strengths and exposing the cracks in the veneer of hope and optimism that defined postwar culture. As Jack Kerouac wrote in the introduction to the book, “Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand, he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film.”
Allison Kemmerer
Curator of Photography and Contemporary Art
Exhibition History
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
Robert Frank: The Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/13/1995 - 12/1/1996Robert Frank: The Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/1995 - 7/9/1995
Robert Frank: The Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/5/1998 - 11/5/2000
How You Look At It : Photographs Of The 20th Century /, Sprengel Museum, 5/14/2000 - 8/6/2000
In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/28/2006 - 7/31/2006
Frame by Frame: Photographic Series and Portfolios from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/2/2013 - 4/14/2013
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Aperture Foundation, 2/27/2016 - 1/1/2017
Photographers Among Us, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/7/2018 - 7/31/2018
Robert Frank: The Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 4/11/2021
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