The Americans
1978
First Aperture edition of The Americans by Robert Frank (1978)
First impression
Large format hardback in near fine conditin
Some minor wear and toning to dust jacket, now in a removable protective
Some very slight toning to extremities of pages
Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm
About
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.