America and Other Myths : Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb 1955 by Lisa Volpe (2023, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300270895

ISBN-139780300270891

eBay Product ID (ePID)25060614979

Product Key Features

Book TitleAmerica and Other Myths : Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb 1955

Number of Pages184 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows, Individual Photographers / Monographs, Subjects & Themes / Historical, General

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography

AuthorLisa Volpe

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight43.5 Oz

Item Length10.9 in

Item Width10.3 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2023-934643

Dewey Edition23

Afterword byStraight, Susan

Dewey Decimal779.0922

SynopsisRobert Frank's and Todd Webb's parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture, Robert Frank's and Todd Webb's parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture In 1955 two photographers were awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to embark on trips across the United States. Robert Frank (1924-2019) drove coast to coast, photographing the highways, bars, and people that formed the basis for his widely admired publication The Americans (1958). Todd Webb (1905-2000) walked across the country, searching for "vanishing Americana and what is taking its place." Unaware of each other's work, the photographers produced strikingly similar images of the highway, parades, and dim, smoky barrooms. Yet while Frank's grainy, off-kilter style revealed many inequities of American life, Webb's carefully composed images embraced clear detail and celebrated the individual oddities of Americans and their locales. This revelatory book is the first to publish Webb's 1955 photographs and connects these parallel projects for the first time. More than one hundred images accompany text illuminating Frank's and Webb's different perspectives and approaches to similar subjects and places; the difference in reception of Frank's iconic work and Webb's relatively unknown series; and the place of the road trip in shaping American identity at midcentury. Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Exhibition Schedule: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (October 8, 2023-January 7, 2024) Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (February 10-July 30, 2024) Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (February 8-May 4, 2025)

LC Classification NumberTR655