{"id":218838,"date":"2009-12-24T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybooks.com\/post\/298876613"},"modified":"2009-12-24T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T19:55:00","slug":"slide-show-dominique-nabokov-on-robert-franks-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218838","title":{"rendered":"Slide Show: Dominique Nabokov on Robert Frank’s Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Frank\u2019s <\/i>The Americans<\/a>, the exhibition \u201cLooking In: Robert Frank\u2019s The Americans\u201d is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> in New York City through January 3, 2010. Dominique Nabokov\u2014whose own photographs appear regularly in <\/i>The New York Review\u2014saw the exhibition both in New York and in Washington, where it originated at the National Gallery of Art<\/a>. Recently, she stopped by the office to talk about why Frank\u2019s photographs are not only still relevant but also a \u201cmiraculous\u201d body of work.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The catalog<\/a> of the exhibition is edited by Sarah Greenough and published by the National Gallery and Steidl. In addition to the original photographs from <\/i>The Americans, it contains many other photographs by Frank from the exhibition, reproductions of his contact sheets, and essays by Greenough and others, including frequent <\/i>Review contributor Luc Sante<\/a> on Jack Kerouac\u2019s introduction to the first American edition of Frank\u2019s book.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014Dominique Nabokov interviewed by Eve Bowen;
\nslide show produced by Michael Berk<\/div>\n
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Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Frank\u2019s The Americans, the exhibition \u201cLooking In: Robert Frank\u2019s The Americans\u201d is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through January 3, 2010. Dominique Nabokov\u2014whose own photographs appear regularly in The New York Review\u2014saw the exhibition both in New York and in Washington, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}