I saw the show at SFMOMA which had a huge number of marked up contact sheets. There's a book of the show which includes a lot of the same material:
Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans: Expanded Edition, Greenough, Sarah https://www.amazon.com/dp/3865218067/ I've two editions, my original and a later one from the 1980s. But not that one. I think I'll order it … :-) G > On Sep 10, 2019, at 2:34 PM, Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a big fan of The Americans, and just saw the announcement on Magnum's > Instagram feed. > > People do give a great deal of credit for the success of The Americans as a > work in its own right as an object rather than just a collection of photos to > Robert Delpire, who did the layout and the first publication, in France. > > I'd love to see the contact sheets. > >> On 10 Sep 2019, at 15:18, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, 94 is a good long life at least... (though someone who is still alive >> at that age may disagee) I have "The Americans" in my library as well , and >> ya gotta know I'm a fan girl. >> >> Fairly recently there was a nice retrospecitve at the Met that was >> splendid... showing some contact sheets with china marker circles indicating >> his choices for enlargement.. >> >> ann sad >> >>> On 9/10/2019 9:45 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>> Sad news today: >>> >>> Robert Frank, Pivotal Figure in Documentary Photography, Is Dead at 94 >>> Mr. Frank’s visually raw and personally expressive style made him one of >>> the most influential photographers of the 20th century. >>> >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/arts/robert-frank-dead.html >>> >>> His photographs turned my head and got under my skin in 1970. I still have >>> the used 1968 paperback edition of “The Americans” I bought at a bookstore >>> on Fordham Road in the Bronx, NY, then… >>> >>> I am so happy I was able to see his talk at the Kantor Museum (Stanford >>> University, Palo Alto, CA 2014). My friend Linda called and invited me to >>> join her: she was photographing the talk for the University. >>> >>> https://flic.kr/p/q5vzFK >>> >>> Godspeed, Robert! >>> >>> G >>> — >>> Only in silence the word, >>> only in dark the light, >>> only in dying, life; >>> bright the hawk's flight >>> on the empty sky. >>> >>> - "Song of Ea", Ursula K. Le Guin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
