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| Other authors / contributors: | Straight, Susan, writer of afterword.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, host institution.
Addison Gallery of American Art, host institution.
Brandywine Museums & Gardens Alliance, host institution.
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| ISBN: | 9780300270891
0300270895
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| Notes: | Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 8, 2023 to January 7, 2024 ; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, from February 10 to July 30, 2024 ; and the Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, from February 8 to May 4, 2025.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-166) and index.
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| Summary: | "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." -- inside front jacket flap.
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