{"product_id":"the-americans","title":"The Americans","description":"Unpaginated. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Photographs by Robert Frank. First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just Frank's subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even the road itself―that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally and linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 56 years ago.","brand":"Steidl \/ National Gallery of Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40013250166854,"sku":"2324722","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2324722.jpg?v=1651505534","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-americans","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}