Robert Frank: The Americans: Trade Edition

攝影史上最具影響力的經典之一——Robert Frank《The Americans》 重返 Aperture 出版目錄。

自 1958 年在法國首次出版、1959 年於美國問世以來，《The Americans》已成為美國攝影史上最重要且最具影響力的作品之一。Robert Frank 以橫跨全美拍攝的 83 張照片，揭示了一個當時少有人直視的美國：種族不平等、腐敗與不公，以及「美國夢」背後的現實陰影。

Frank 的視角既銳利又堅定，卻同時充滿人性與詩意，描繪出一幅在歷史轉折點上的美國群像，成為攝影史上最深刻而動人的國家肖像之一。

本版為這本經典之作重返 Aperture 目錄的重要版本，距離 1968 年 Aperture 與 Museum of Modern Art 合作出版的版本已逾半世紀。為紀念 Frank 誕生百年並配合 MoMA 的大型展覽，本書延續 2008 年版本的高品質 tritone 印刷 製作；該版本的設計與製作過程曾由 Frank 親自全程參與。

Frank 精準而獨特的影像語言與詩性洞察徹底改變了二十世紀的攝影方向，並深深影響後來多位重要攝影師，包括 Lee Friedlander、Nan Goldin、Joel Meyerowitz、Ed Ruscha 等人。

如今，《The Americans》被譽為史上最具突破性的攝影書之一，其力量與挑戰性依然不減當年，持續與當代觀者產生共鳴。

A celebrated return of Robert Frank's seminal photobook The Americans to Aperture's catalog--one of the most important bodies of photographic work ever made.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.