The Americans primo levi From a system of certainties

From a system of certainties of technical-scientific thought man arrives at personal

Signed by Teju Cole to a dedicated slip glued into the inside back cover

sprung from the seeds past generations had planted

with an ongoing witty and frank reckoning with traditional roles for women as daughter

most of which seem to be about things glimpsed in passing-a world more lost than found

The Americans primo levi From a system of certaintiesTwelvth Steidl edition of The Americans by Robert Frank (2019) Medium format hardback in new condition. About The Americans is a photographic book by Robert Frank which was highly influential in post war American photography. It was first published in France in 1958, and the following year in the United States. The photographs were notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society.