Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans
Bis 26. April 2009
National Gallery Of Art, Washington »

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 16. Mai bis 23. August 2009
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22. September bis 27. Dezember 2009

The exhibition – organized by Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art – will examine both Frank’s process in creating the photographs and the book by presenting 150 photographs, including all of the images from The Americans, as well as 17 books, 15 manuscripts, and 28 contact sheets. In honor of the exhibition, Frank has created a film and participated in selecting and assembling three large collages.

The National Gallery of Art is the copublisher with Steidl of the 50th-anniversary edition of The Americans.
The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication, produced in two different editions, and published with assistance from The Getty Foundation.

The softcover edition, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, includes reproductions all of the works in the exhibition, along with essays by curator Sarah Greenough and Anne Wilkes Tucker, Stuart Alexander, Martin Gasser, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Michel Frizot, Luc Sante, and Philip Brookman on the evolution of Frank’s art and his relationship with photographers, editors, curators, and writers whose ideas and work helped him realize The Americans. The softcover edition comprises 396 pages with six color, 168 tritone, and 210 duotone illustrations and will be available for $45.00.

The hardcover edition, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans —Expanded Edition includes all of the material in the softcover edition, plus reproductions of all of the contact sheets for images in The Americans, a chronology and map, an appendix titled «Making and Remaking The Americans» (which compares Frank’s preliminary sequence to the first publication of the book and subsequent editions), and an appendix of Manuscript Materials, reproducing or transcribing correspondence and other archival documents. The hardcover edition comprises 528 pages with 108 color, 168 tritone, and 210 duotone illustrations and will be available for $75.00.