Robert Frank: Moving Out

FRANK, Robert, GREENOUGH, Sarah, BROOKMAN, Philip, DI PIERO, W. S., GASSER, Martin, HANHARDT, John

ISBN 10: 1881616266 / ISBN 13: 9781881616269

Published by Scalo Verlag, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Zürich (Zurich), 1994

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine burgundy cloth-covered boards, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and films by Robert Frank. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III and texts (in English) by Philip Brookman, W.S. Di Piero, Martin Gasser, Sarah Greenough and John Hanhardt. Includes a chronology, list of selected exhibitions of photographs and films, list of films, list of works exhibited and bibliography. 336 pp. with numerous four-color plates and black and white reproductions. 11-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1994 exhibition Robert Frank: Moving Out at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (traveled to the Yokohama Museum of Art, Kunsthaus Zurich, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles). New in publisher's shrink-wrap. A flawless copy. The definitive monograph on Robert Frank's work.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Robert Frank: Moving Out
• Publisher: Scalo Verlag, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Zürich (Zurich)
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881616266
• ISBN 13: 9781881616269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
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Synopsis

This comprehensive volume presents the works of the Swedish photographer, and includes five essays which analyze different aspects of Frank's photographs, films and videos

Synopsis

Robert Frank is one of the most important photographers to have emerged since World War II. In the early 1950s he pioneered an original and sophisticated way of looking at the world that has dominated the art of photography for many years. It was not simply the raw style of his work that made Frank so controversial. Nor was it only his subjects - gas stations, roadside cafes or cars - which he explored in his highly influential book "The Americans". Rather it was the combination of all these things, plus Frank's ability to express the loneliness and isolation so characteristic of our age. His powerful images have profoundly influenced successive generations of photographers, painters, film makers, critics and writers. In five specially commisioned essays, scholars draw upon the National Gallery of Art's archive of Frank's vintage prints, negatives, contact sheets, and work prints to provide a comprehensive examination of his landmark contribution to the art of photography and film.