FRANK, Robert
Les Américains.
Paris, Encyclopedie Essentielle, Robert Delpire Editeur, (1958).
4° menor apaisado (185 x 208 mm.) Cartoné original ilustrado por Saul Steinberg.
172 pp., 1 h.
Primera edición, anterior a la estadounidense, de la obra maestra de Robert Frank, un libro que cambió el rumbo de la fotografía del siglo XX. Con 83 huecograbados en blanco y negro a página completa, incluye breves textos de Simone de Beauvoir, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, André Maurois, Henry Miller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Claude Roy, André Siegfried, John Steinbeck, Adlai Stevenson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harry S. Truman, George Washington, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright, etc.
“The most renowned photobook of all. It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers. Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank’s masterpiece.” (Parr & Badger I:247).
“The Delpire first edition Les Américains (1958) is more like a sociological study, wherein Frank’s photographs appear as illustrations of the probing texts printed on facing pages, gathered by Alain Bosquet from dozens of illustrious writers… When Barney Rosset at Grove Press agreed to publish The Americans in the U.S., Frank pulled out all the text, leaving only blank pages with captions facing the images, mirroring the layout of Evans’s American Photographs… The French edition is sociology, the American edition is poetry.” – David Levi Strauss, as quoted by Roth, The Book of 101 Books, p. 150.
Jack Kerouac escribió en el prólogo: “Robert Frank he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes.”
Roth, 150; Schweizer Fotobücher p. 218.
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