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Robert Frank: Mary's Book

Robert Frank: Mary's Book

Frank, Robert
Alexander, Stuart
Gresh, Kristen

Hardcover

Photographers

Publisher Price: $55.00

ISBN10: 0878469001
ISBN13: 9780878469000
Publisher: MFA Publications
Published: Jun 24 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 2.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 9.30 Depth: 12.60
Language: English

Frank's artist's book and love letter for his first wife exemplifies the poetic, virtuosic approach to photobooks that would come to define his storied career

Called a poet with a camera by Edward Steichen, Robert Frank (1924-2019) was one of many artists who searched for creative freedom in postwar Paris. It was while he was living in the city in 1949 that Frank produced a seminal volume in his oeuvre: a rare, personal photobook made for his then-girlfriend, artist Mary Frank (née Lockspeiser). 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).

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