内容简介
FirstpublishedinFrancein1958,thenintheUnitedStatesin1959,RobertFrank'sTheAmericanschangedthecourseoftwentieth-centuryphotography.In83photographs,FranklookedbeneaththesurfaceofAmericanlifetorevealapeopleplaguedbyr
作者简介
RobertFrankwasborninZurichin1924toparentsofJewishdescent.HeimmigratedtotheUnitedStatestwoyearsafterWorldWarIIended,andsincethenhehasproducedworkthatchangedthehistoryofartandphotography.GroundbreakingprojectsincludeTheAmericans,LinesofMyHand,BlackWhiteandThings,PullMyDaisyandCocksuckerBlues.FrankwasthesubjectofamajorretrospectiveorganizedbytheNationalGalleryofArt,Washington,in1994.HewastherecipientoftheHasselbladAwardin1996.AmajorexhibitionorganizedbyTheNationalGalleryofArt,LookingIn:RobertFrank's"TheAmericans,"willtournationallyin2009,withstopsinWashington,SanFranciscoandNewYork.AnneWilkesTuckerisCuratorofPhotographyatTheMuseumofFineArts,Houston,andtheauthorofLouisFaurerandTheHistoryofJapanesePhotography."JeffL.RosenheimisAssistantCuratorintheDepartmentofPhotographsattheMetropolitanMuseumofArt.HeistheauthorofWalkerEvansandJaneNinasinNewOrleans,1935-1936,editorandcoauthorofUnclassified:AWalkerEvansAnthology,andco-authorofWalkerEvans,1928-1974."
