FilmAnalysis · 照片背后的故事

《美国人》先在巴黎出版

从照片出发,读一段摄影史。故事和照片之间只是阅读上的联想,不代表照片的作者、相机或实际用的胶卷。

1958 · 摄影集背后的故事

罗伯特·弗兰克的《美国人》先在法国出版:1958 年 5 月 15 日,出版人罗贝尔·德尔皮尔在巴黎推出了法文版。

1959 年,纽约的格罗夫出版社出版美国版,去掉了法文版里的文字,换上杰克·凯鲁亚克写的引言。同一组照片,在两个国家用两种方式开场。

不妨试试

挑十张照片,排两次顺序:一次配上文字,一次只有照片。看看哪一种更让你想翻下去。

「不妨试试」是编辑设计的练习,不是史实。

罗伯特·弗兰克

资料出处

接着读

一本书,两个书名

书名是编辑起的

同年出版的三本书

故事卡与徽章分开收藏。为照片评分仍按原有规则收集徽章。

FilmAnalysis · Stories behind the frame

The Americans appeared in Paris first

Read a little photographic history. These connections suggest ways to look; they say nothing about authorship, cameras or the physical film stock.

1958 · Behind the photobook

Robert Frank's The Americans was published first in France: Robert Delpire brought out the French edition in Paris on 15 May 1958.

In 1959 Grove Press in New York published the American edition, dropped the French texts and added an introduction by Jack Kerouac. The same photographs opened two different ways.

Try this

Choose ten photographs and sequence them twice: once with captions, once with pictures only. See which makes you want to keep turning pages.

"Try this" is an exercise written by the editors, not history.

Robert Frank

Sources

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One book, two titles

The editor named the book

Three books in one year

Story cards have their own shelf. Rating photographs still collects badges under the existing rules.