Robert Frank (b. 1924)

Newburgh, New York, 1955

细节

Robert Frank (b. 1924)
Newburgh, New York, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed and dated in ink (inverted in the upper margin); credit and date in unknown hand in ink, copyright limitation and 'Robert Frank Archive' stamps (on the verso)
12½ x 8¼in. (31.7 x 20.9 cm.)

出版

Evergreen Review, vol. 1, no. 4, 1957, front cover; 'Robert Frank,' U.S. Camera 1958, U.S. Camera, 1957, p. 114; 'A Pageant Portfolio: One Man's U.S.A.' Pageant, vol. 13, no. 10, April 1958, p. 29; Frank, Les Américains, Delpire, 1958, [pl. 40], p. 85; Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, 1959, [pl. 40], n.p., and in all subsequent editions; Doty, Photography in America, Random House, 1974, p. 213

拍品专文

Before the publication of The Americans this was the image from the book most frequently reproduced. It struck a chord among the rapidly growing culture of disaffected youth. It recalls Marlon Brando's character in The Wild One and James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. As publisher of counterculture-oriented Evergreen Review, it was only natural that Grove Press would publish Robert Frank's book in 1959. Directed by Barney Rosset, Grove Press was known as a daring publisher which took a chance on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1954 and eventually overturned obscenity lawsuits for releasing an unexpurgated version of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, shortly before issuing Frank's book, and for Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer a little over a year later.