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UNINA9910791996503321 |
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Autore |
Day Jonathan |
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Titolo |
Robert Frank's The Americans [[electronic resource] ] : the art of documentary photography / / Jonathan Day |
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Bristol ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-16265-2 |
9786613162656 |
1-84150-446-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Documentary photography |
Photographic criticism |
United States Social life and customs 1945-1970 Pictorial works |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Robert Frank; Introduction; Part One: America and The Americans; 1 Frank and the '50's; 2 Developing The Americans; 3 A Divided World: 'Art' and 'Documentary' Photography; 4 The Creation, Selection and Programming of The Americans' Images: All That Jazz; 5 Image and Text; Part Two: Themes in The Americans; 6 People of the Flag; 7 On the Road; 8 Losing My Religion: New Icons For a New Civilization; 9 The Americans' Response To The Family of Man Exhibition |
10 The Americans and the Promotional Images of the Standard Oil Company 11 The Primacy of the Visual; Part Three: The Americans As a Photographic Sequence; 12 Tracing the Lines of His Hand; Conclusion; References; Photographs in The Americans; Index; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the mid 50's, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo-book, The Americans, represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. To mark the book's fiftieth anniversary, Jonathan Day revisits |
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