ROBERT FRANK: STORY LINES

Philip Brookman

ISBN 10: 1854375601 / ISBN 13: 9781854375605

Published by Tate Publishing, London, 2004

About this Item

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Frank: Story Lines at Tate Modern 28 October 2004 - 23 January 2005, 208pp, illustrated with black & white photos, pages clean and crisp, plastic-covered soft card covers. Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 - September 9, 2019) was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ . ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LARGE BOOK MAY COST EXTRA TO SHIP OUTSIDE OF THE UK. Size: 9.75 x 11.25 Inches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ROBERT FRANK: STORY LINES
• Publisher: Tate Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854375601
• ISBN 13: 9781854375605
• Binding: Plastic Covered Soft Card
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Published
• Book Type: Art Exhibition Book

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Synopsis

Robert Frank (1924-) is one of the most influential of the post-war photographers. Emigrating to the US in 1947, he began working in fashion and the advertising industry for magazines like Life, Fortune and The New York Times. A year later he left to travel through South America and Europe, shooting in Peru, Bolivia, London, Wales and France. Some of these images were published in Life and in the book Indiens Pas Morts. In 1955 he became the first European photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. He used it to take a road-trip across the States, shooting scenes of ordinary American life, deliberately retaining the imperfections of the printing process in stark contrast to the perfectionism of contemporaries like Ansel Adams and Minor White. The resulting book, The Americans, radically changed the language of photography, gave rise to a new distinct art form in the photo-book and questioned the authority of the photograph as document. Published to accompany the major retrospective exhibition of Frank in the UK, Robert Frank will survey a career that has continued to develop and break new ground since the 1950s. Photographs from locations including Peru, London, Wales, Detroi

About the Author

Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1924 and went to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book The Americans, first published in 1958, which gave rise to a distinct new art form in the photo-book, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy, made in 1959. His other important projects include the book Black White and Things, 1954, the book Lines of My Hand, 1959 and the film Cocksucker Blues, 1972. Frank's work has been the subject of major exhibitions around the world and is included in many significant public and private photography collections. He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.