ROBERT FRANK: THE AMERICANS

A celebrated return of Robert Frank s seminal photobook The Americans to Aperture s catalog one of the most important bodies of photographic work ever made In the nearly seven decades since its publication in France in 1958 and in the United States in 1959 Robert Frank s The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American photography Through eighty three photographs taken across the country Frank unveiled an America that had gone previously unacknowledged confronting its people with an underbelly of racial inequality corruption and injustice and the stark reality of the American Dream Frank s point of view at once startling and tenacious is imbued with humanity and lyricism painting a poignant and incomparable portrait of the nation at a turning point in history This edition of The Americans is a celebrated return of an iconic title to Aperture s catalog more than a half century after the Aperture and Museum of Modern Art edition was published in 1968 Presented on the centennial of Frank s birth and a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art it has been produced following the finest tritone printing from the 2008 edition for which Frank was personally involved in every step of the design and production Frank s exactin