
Publisher's description
Robert Frank’s father, Henry, was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. Album makes public for the first time a selection of Henry Frank’s photographs, including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes. When Robert Frank emigrated to the United States in 1947, a wooden box containing his father’s stereophotographs was one of the few objects he brought with him. In 2008, that box and the fragile photographic glass plates within it were hand-escorted to Steidl in Göttingen, Germany, where they were scanned in tri-tone in preparation for this book. Designed by Robert Frank, Album reveals Henry Frank to be a talented photographer, a keen traveler and an enthusiast of modern means of transport. This intimately-designed photo album is a revelation of the unknown photographer Henry Frank, and a historical photographic document of the early twentieth century, as well as a new chapter in Robert Frank’s ongoing bookmaking.
Specifications
Book title | Henry Frank: Father Photographer |
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Photographer | Henry Frank Robert Frank |
ISBN 10 | 3865218148 / 3-86521-814-8 |
ISBN 13 | 9783865218148 / 978-3-86521-814-8 |
Publisher | Steidl |
Publish date | Oct 2009 |
Publish year | 2009 |
Book format | Hardcover |
Book format details | clothbound |
Language | German, English, French |
Pages | 88 pages |
Dimensions | 14 x 16,5 cm / 5.5 x 6.5 inches |
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