@article{712197,
      recid = {712197},
      author = {Frank, Robert, and Kerouac, Jack,},
      title = {The Americans /},
      publisher = {Steidl ;},
      address = {Gottingen :},
      pages = {1 v. (unpaged) :},
      year = {2008},
      note = {Originally published in French as Les Américains by R.  Delpire in 1958.},
      abstract = {From the Publisher: In 1958, the first edition of Robert  Frank's The Americans was published in Paris. Les  Americains contained Frank's 83 photographs in the same  sequence as all subsequent editions, with the image on the  right hand page, but juxtaposed with historical texts about  American society and politics, gathered by Alain Bosquet.  The following year, in the first American edition, the  French texts were removed and an introduction by Jack  Kerouac was added. Over the subsequent 50 years, The  Americans has been republished in many editions, in  numerous languages, with a variety of cover designs and  even in a range of sizes. It is the most famous photography  book ever published, and it changed the face of the medium  forever. Robert Frank discussed with his publisher, Gerhard  Steidl, the idea of producing a new edition using modern  scanning and the finest tritone printing. The starting  point was to bring original prints from New York to  Gottingen, Germany, where Steidl is based. In July 2007,  Frank visited Gottingen. A new format for the book was  worked out and new typography selected. A new cover was  designed and Frank chose the book cloth, foil for embossing  and the endpaper. Most significantly, as he has done for  every edition of The Americans, Frank changed the cropping  of many of the photographs, usually including more  information. Two images were changed completely from the  original 1958 and 1959 editions.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/712197},
}