Catalogue information

LastDodo number
2387355
Area
Books
Title
Peru
subtitle
Literary collection
Literary number
Addition to number
Publisher
Series / hero
Original title
Translator
Illustrator
Year
2008
Print Run
First edition
Number of pages
48
Number produced
Dimensions
25.0 x 20.0 cm
ISBN10
ISBN13
978-3-86521-692-2
Barcode / EAN / UPC
Language / dialect
Country of publication
Details
Writing from New York in March 1949, Robert Frank sent home to his mother in Switzerland a birthday gift of a book maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru. Frank made an identical book for himself and one of each of these two dummies now resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington. A few of these images are well-known in Frank’s oeuvre but previously the entire series had only ever been seen by a small number of people. This book presents for the first time the complete sequence of images, based on the original book Frank had conceived and realised under his direction. Peru is a work of major historical significance in both the artist’s history and the history of photography. (source Steidl)