FRANK ROBERT

(P/B) ROBERT FRANK
Household Inventory Record is a new readymade in the series of Robert Frank's late visual diaries. Composed of polaroids, the thin and upright volume continues the journey into Frank's realm and imagery, showing us snapshots from his travels, of his friends and everyday curiosities. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE AMERICANS
Robert Frank's The Americans was first published on May 15, 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris. It featured 83 of Frank's photographs taken in America in 1955 and 1956, accompanied by writings in French about American political and social history selected by Alain Bosquet. Delpire's Les Americains formed part of the Encyclopedie essentielle series, which presented foreign countries to a French audience. Each of Frank's photographs in this edition is placed on a right-hand page, with the texts on the left-hand pages. The first English edition...
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(P/B) ROBERT FRANK
This is the unconventional catalogue of the exhibition "Robert Frank, Books and Films, 1947-2016," a special edition of the German newspaper the Suddeutsche Zeitung - following its original design and format, and printed on newsprint. Conceived by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl, the exhibition presents Frank's iconic images in the context of his life, creative processes, and wider cultural history. Here Frank's books and films are seen against the backdrop of his photographs, which are presented in an immediate and straightforward way: pr...
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(H/B) HOLD STILL, KEEP GOING
HOLD STILL - keep going is the long-awaited reprint of the catalogue to Robert Frank's 2001 exhibition of the same name at Museum Folkwang in Essen. The book explores the role of film in Frank's work, and the interaction between the still and moving image that has engaged him since the late 1950s. HOLD STILL - keep going adopts a non-chronological approach, including photographs, film-stills, 35mm filmstrips, as well as photo-montages that present his most famous series alongside less known work. Text, from hand-written phrases on photogra...
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(P/B) WHAT WE HAVE SEEN
Yet another precious volume in his celebrated series of visual diaries, Was haben wir gesehen / What we have seen is all about people and places in the long and very convivial life of Robert Frank. Auspiciously opening and closing with the zoom on the dial of a clock tower, serving as a reminder of the silent but constant passage of time, the book is heavy with memories and pictures of old photographs. Like a leitmotif carrying us through the images, the word "souvenir" pops up under a magnifying glass positioned on a French text as a read...
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(H/B) PULL MY DAISY
Pull my Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third of a stage play he never finished titles Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-infant son. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway...
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(H/B) LOOKING IN ROBERT FRANK'S "THE AMERICANS"

ROBERT FRANK PORTFOLIO

(P/B) BLACK WHITE AND THINGS

(H/B) PARIS

SEVEN STORIES

(H/B) PERU