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Author Robert Frank
Pages 174
Signed No
Publisher Delpire
Publishing date 1958
Publishing place Paris
Language French
Edition First edition
Binding Hardcover without dustjacket (as issued)
Book condition Collectible; Very Good
Condition description Minor shelf wear to tips of spine; Tightly bound and clean; small autograph by previous owner on first empty page; else fine, An exceptional copy of the holy grail of photography books!
Dimensions (cm hxb) 19 x 21,5
"paved the way for three decades of photographs exploring the personal poetics of lived experience. Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Franks's masterpiece."--Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1 Unlike the Grove Press edition published the following year, in legendary publisher Robert Delpire's first French edition--with its politically charged texts printed on pages facing the photos--Frank's acerbic documentary of post-war American life comes across more as a biting exposé of the ennui and provincialism lurking beneath the surface than as a "sad poem sucked out of America," in Kerouac's famous words.

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Photographs by Robert Frank. edited by Alain Bosquet. Encyclopedie Essentielle/Robert Delpire. Oblong octavo. Glazed paper over boards. Cover design by Saul Steinberg. No dust jacket as issued. Numerous gravure reproductions. Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Ph, in Andrew Roth, The Open Book. and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. Text by Simone de Beauvoir, Bernard Iddings Bell, Alain Bosquet, John Brown, Omar N. Bradley, Erskine Caldwell, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Andre Maurois, Henry Miller, Claude Roy, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright u.a.
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