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SCARCE OPPORTUNITY to purchase this UNIQUE, QUICKLY SOLD-OUT and since then VERY SOUGHT-AFTER PHOTO BOOK PROJECT - in BRANDNEW condition.

Seven small books with polaroid photos by Robert Frank - in a slipcase.

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Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil; only opened once for the pictures.

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"After completing The Americans in 1958, Robert Frank has worked almost exclusively with Polaroids, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph. Seven Stories brings together sequences of single images Frank has been compiling to create books of new work. As always the photographs and stories relate to Frank’s life and milieu, his homes in Mabou and New York, or a trip to China or Spain. This collection of small books is a new stage in the practice of this remarkable artist who continually challenges the limits of photography and film and strives to avoid repeating himself."
(from the publisher, short version)

Steidl, Göttingen. 2009. First edition, first printing. 

Seven stapled softback albums housed in a slipcase four colour printing throughout, on white craft paper, with a super glossy spot varnish on the images. 140 cm x 105 mm. Photos: Robert Frank. 124 pages (in total). 93 colour plates (in total). Text in English.

Book 1: China, 20 pages with 20 photos. Book 2: Early Europe / Red Lake, 16 pages with 15 photos. Book 3: Flies / Pools, 12 pages with 6 photos. Book 4: Objects, 14 pages with 7 photos. Book 5: Objects / Photos, 20 pages with 11 photos. Book 6: People Story, 22 pages with 15 photos. Book 7: Story Rooms / Windows, 20 pages with 19 photos.

Fantastic photobook object by Robert Frank - in PERFECT condition.

It’s Christmas soon, so a great opportunity to purchase your gift - for others or for yourself.
I selected for you more than 100 highly attractive LOTS from MY PERSONAL COLLECTION 
and from my newest purchases.

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By the famous photographer and maker of 3 of the most important photobooks ever published: 

- The americans (Martin Parr , The Photobook , page 247)
- Flower Is (Martin Parr , The Photobook, page 264)
- The Lines of my hand (Martin Parr, The Photobook, page 261)

"After completing The Americans in 1958, Robert Frank put aside the single image and concentrated throughout the 1960s on film-making. He only returned to still-photographs in the 1970s, using a Polaroid camera with black-and-white positive/negative film. He frequently layered the images with text, which he inscribed by hand onto the Polaroid negative. Frank found that these works allowed him more freedom to "destroy that image, that perfect image". In recent years Robert Frank has worked almost exclusively with Polaroids, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph. Seven Stories brings together sequences of single images Frank has been compiling to create books of new work. As always the photographs and stories relate to Frank s life and milieu, his homes in Mabou and New York, or a trip to China or Spain. This collection of small books is a new stage in the practice of this remarkable artist who continually challenges the limits of photography and film and strives to avoid repeating himself."
(from the publisher, longer version) 

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 1959, 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 (1972) 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 collections. He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.

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