Les Américains

Robert Frank
Les Américains

Photographs: Robert Frank

Text: Alain Bosquet, Erskine Caldwell, John Dos Passos, Simone de Beauvoir, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, Claude Roy, John Steinbeck and more

Publisher: Delpire

172 pages

Pictures: 83

Year: 1958

Comments: Hardcover, 195 x 225 mm. First edition, 1958. Black & white photographs. Gravure printing. Text in french. Minor wear. Very fresh and clean copy. Rare in this condition. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1, p. 247 ; The Open Book by Andrew Roth, p.204. Collector's copy.

Robert Frank's Les Américains eventually achieved legendary status as "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".

Martin Parr & Badger, The Photobook