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List Price: $45.00Amazon.com's Price: $27.90 You Save: $17.10 (38%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865215246
ISBN: 3865215246
Label: Steidl
Manufacturer: Steidl
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 108
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: Steidl
Release Date: May 01, 2008
Sales Rank: 351797
Studio: Steidl
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Product Description:
The publication of Paris marks the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. Having left Switzerland in 1924, this 1951 trip to France was only Frank's second return to Europe after he had settled in New York City in 1947, and some of the images he made during that visit have become iconic in the history of the medium. The 80 photographs reproduced here, which were selected by Frank and editor Ute Eskildsen, suggest that Frank's experience of the "new world" had sharpened his eye for European urbanism. He saw the city's streets as a stage for human activity and focused particularly on the flower sellers. His work clearly references Atget and invokes the tradition of the flaneur.
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I am never happy with photos that have one edge corresponding with the spine or that extend partially onto a facing page. Too much of the information is lost as the facing pages curve toward the spine.
This delightful ensemble of work would, I think, be better presented in a format so that all images have some border separating them from the spine and do not project into or extend beyond the spine.
Perhaps the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the book might be slightly ... Read More
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