Robert Frank: Mary’s Book
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Author: Frank, Robert
While Robert Frank was living in Paris in 1949, he produced a seminal volume in his oeuvre: a personal photobook made for his then-girlfriend. 'Mary’s Book' reproduces this love letter in full for the first time, accompanied by insightful essays from leading scholars. This facsimile clothbound volume re-creates the series of unbound pages nestled within one another, filled with handwritten notes and hand-cut prints. Readers can experience late 1940s Paris through Frank's visual harmonies.In 'Mary’s Book', the photographer chronicled his time in the city with his poetic, insightful and inquisitive eye, and experimented for the first time with combining text and image. This singular object proved an important bookmaking exercise for Frank, and remains as evidence of his maturing artistic vision, which led to one of the most influential photobooks of the 20th century, 'The Americans' (1958).
ISBN 9780878469000. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. hb. 160 pages. 75 colour ills. 31.8 x 22.9 cm.
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While Robert Frank was living in Paris in 1949, he produced a seminal volume in his oeuvre: a personal photobook made for his then-girlfriend. 'Mary’s Book' reproduces this love letter in full for the first time, accompanied by insightful essays from leading scholars. This facsimile clothbound volume re-creates the series of unbound pages nestled within one another, filled with handwritten notes and hand-cut prints. Readers can experience late 1940s Paris through Frank's visual harmonies.In 'Mary’s Book', the photographer chronicled his time in the city with his poetic, insightful and inquisitive eye, and experimented for the first time with combining text and image. This singular object proved an important bookmaking exercise for Frank, and remains as evidence of his maturing artistic vision, which led to one of the most influential photobooks of the 20th century, 'The Americans' (1958).
ISBN 9780878469000. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. hb. 160 pages. 75 colour ills. 31.8 x 22.9 cm.
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