Robert Frank, The Americans (2024 Aperture edition) is a celebrated return of Robert Frank’s seminal photobook to Aperture’s catalog. In the nearly seven decades since its publication in France in 1958 and 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.

Title: The Americans Author(s): Robert Frank Publisher: Steidl / Aperture Year: 1958 (original), multiple reprints available Format: Hardcover / Paperback Page Count: 83 pages (original), later editions may vary Dimensions: 9 × 12 in Weight: 1.8 lb

With 83 photographs taken across the United States, Robert Frank presents a portrait of America that is at once intimate and unsettling. Through his lens, we see a nation in flux—its beauty and its contradictions laid bare. Accompanied by Jack Kerouac’s evocative introduction, this edition invites readers to look again, and perhaps see differently.