书名：The Americans / 美国人
作者：Robert Frank (摄影), Jack Kerouac (引言)
出版社：Aperture，2024年
装帧：精装，180页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 21.7*18.9 cm
ISBN：978-1-5971-1571-1

简介

自1958年在法国出版、1959年在美国问世以来的近七十年间，罗伯特·弗兰克的《美国人》已成为美国摄影史上最具影响力和最经久不衰的作品之一。通过八十三幅拍摄于美国各地的照片，弗兰克揭示了一个此前未被承认的美国——让其人民直面种族不平等、腐败、不公以及美国梦背后残酷现实的阴暗面。弗兰克的视角——既惊人又坚韧——充满人道关怀与诗意，描绘了一幅在国家历史转折点上深刻而无可比拟的肖像。

这个版本的《美国人》标志着这部标志性作品在超过半个世纪后，重新回到Aperture的书目之中（此前Aperture与现代艺术博物馆的版本于1968年出版）。本书为纪念弗兰克百年诞辰而推出，并配合现代艺术博物馆的大型回顾展，其制作遵循了2008年版本最高品质的三色调印刷标准，弗兰克本人亲自参与了该版设计与制作的每一个环节。

弗兰克严苛的视觉语言、独特的风格和诗意的洞察力改变了二十世纪摄影的进程，并影响了后续数代摄影师，包括李·弗里德兰德、南·戈尔丁、丹尼·里昂、乔尔·迈耶罗维茨、埃德·鲁沙和加里·温诺格兰德。如今被推崇为有史以来最具开创性的摄影书之一，《美国人》在出版时那般强大而挑衅的力量至今未减，并继续与当代观众产生共鸣。

In the nearly seven decades since its publication in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American photography. Through eighty-three photographs taken across the country, Frank unveiled an America that had gone previously unacknowledged—confronting its people with an underbelly of racial inequality, corruption, injustice, and the stark reality of the American dream. Frank's point of view—at once startling and tenacious—is imbued with humanity and lyricism, painting a poignant and incomparable portrait of the nation at a turning point in history.

This edition of The Americans is a celebrated return of an iconic title to Aperture's catalog, more than a half-century after the Aperture and Museum of Modern Art edition was published in 1968. Presented on the centennial of Frank's birth and coinciding with a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, it has been produced following the finest tritone printing from the 2008 edition for which Frank was personally involved in every step of the design and production.

Frank's exacting vision, distinct style, and poetic insight changed the course of twentieth-century photography, and influenced subsequent generations of photographers, including Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Danny Lyon, Joel Meyerowitz, Ed Ruscha, and Garry Winogrand. Now extolled as one of the most groundbreaking photobooks of all time, The Americans remains as powerful and provocative as it was upon publication and continues to resonate with audiences today.