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Robert Frank: What we have seen

Robert Frank: What we have seen
Library Shelf Location ABC-FRAN
Publication Date 2016
Description

NOTE: THIS ARTISTS' BOOK IS HELD IN BALTIC ARCHIVE NOT THE LIBRARY. Please email archive@balticmill.com or see staff to view this book.

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 reading device. Frank’s house in Mabou is once again portrayed as a popular hideaway for people like Jack Kerouac, Gerhard Steidl, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and his family members. Frank’s visual diaries constitute an important part of both his later work and the ongoing art of the photobook.

ISBN 9783958290952
Quantity 1
Pages 48
Format softcover in slipcase
Publisher Steidl
Related Artist Robert Frank
Categories Photography, Artists' Books
Keywords visual diary, Biographical
Language English

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