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- Robert Frank The Complete Film Works Vol. 2: OK End Here, Conversations in Vermont, Liferaft Earth
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Robert Frank’s significant contribution to photography in the mid-twentieth century is unquestionable. His book, The Americans, is arguably the most important American photography publication of the post-World War II period, and his photography has spawned numerous disciples, as well as a rich critical literature. However, at the very moment Frank achieved the status of a ‘star’ at the end of the 1950s, he abandoned traditional still photography to become a filmmaker. He eventually returned to photography in the 1970s, but Frank, as a filmmaker, has remained a well-kept
secret for almost four decades. Robert Frank The Complete Film Works fills a long overdue gap by presenting every one of Frank's more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s.
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- Frank Films – The Film and Video Work of Robert Frank
- “I put my Leica in a cupboard. Enough of lying in wait, pursuing, sometimes catching the essence of the black and the white, the knowledge where God is. I make films. Now I speak to the people in my viewfinder.” (Robert Frank)
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- Robert Frank The Complete Film Works Vol. 5: This Song for Jack, Ginsberg and Corso Reading, Hunter
- Robert Frank The Complete Film Works fills a long overdue gap by presenting every one of Frank’s more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 60s.
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- Robert Frank The Complete Film Works Vol. 6: C’est vrai, Candy Mountain, Run/New Order
- Robert Frank The Complete Film Works fills a long overdue gap by presenting every one of Frank’s more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 60s.
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- The Complete Film Works. Vol 1: Pull My Daisy, The Sin of Jesus, Me and My Brother
- Robert Frank’s significant contribution to photography in the mid-twentieth century is unquestionable. His book, The Americans, is arguably the most important American photography publication of the post-World War II period, and his photography has spawned numerous disciples, as well as a rich critical literature. However, at the very moment Frank achieved the status of a “star” at the end of the 1950s, he abandoned traditional still photography to become a filmmaker. He eventually returned to photography in the 1970s, but Frank, as a filmmaker, has remained a well-kept secret for almost four decades. Robert Frank The Complete Film Works fills a long overdue gap by presenting every one of Frank's more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 60s.
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- The Complete Film Works. Vol 3: Keep Busy, About Me: A Musical
- Robert Frank’s significant contribution to photography in the mid-twentieth century is unquestionable. His book, The Americans, is arguably the most important American photography publication of the post-World War II period, and his photography has spawned numerous disciples, as well as a rich critical literature. However, at the very moment Frank achieved the status of a “star” at the end of the 1950s, he abandoned traditional still photography to become a filmmaker. He eventually returned to photography in the 1970s, but Frank, as a filmmaker, has remained a well-kept secret for almost four decades. Robert Frank The Complete Film Works fills a long overdue gap by presenting every one of Frank's more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 60s.
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- The Complete Film Works / Volume 4: Life Dances On…, Home Improvements, Energy and How to Get It
- Even though Robert Frank was already a renowned photographer when he started his work as a film maker at the end of the 1950s, he remained a well-kept secret within the film community for almost four decades. Robert Frank The Complete Film Works fills a long overdue gap by presenting every one of Frank’s more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 60s.
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- Robert Frank
- Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1924 and went to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book The Americans, first published in 1959, which gave rise to a distinct new art form in the photo-book, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy, made in 1959. His other important projects include the book Black White and Things (1954) the book Lines of My Hand (1972) and the film Cocksucker Blues (1972). Frank’s work has been the subject of major exhibitions around the world and is included in many significant public and private collections. He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Henry Frank, Father Photographer
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Robert Frank’s father, Henry (1890–1976), was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. Father Photographer makes public for the first time a selection of Henry Frank’s photographs including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes.
A couple of years ago, Gerhard Steidl found at a Robert Frank’s sudio wooden boxes containing the complete archive of his father’s stereophotographs. In 2008 that box and the fragile photographic glass plates within it were handescorted to Steidl in Göttingen, where they were scanned in tritone in preparation for this book. Designed by Robert Frank, Father Photographer reveals Henry Frank to be both a talented photographer and a keen traveller. His pictures include snow-capped Alps and lakes in Switzerland, views of Venice, Pisa and Florence, and depictions of his family and friends including the young Robert. Henry Frank also reveals a passion for modern means of transport in images of aeroplanes, ships, hot-air balloons, and a car fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. Father Photographer is a revelation of the unknown photographer Henry Frank, a historical photographic document of the early twentieth century, as well as a new chapter in Robert Frank’s ongoing bookmaking.
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- Photography and Film
- Man‘s relationship with his surroundings is at the center of Valérie Jouve’s work. Her choreography of figures in an urban environment brings to mind pictures of classic street photography yet Jouve has developed fictitious “areas” at the junction of her topographic interests and her photographic research on human presence. Genres and photographic methods gradually become interlocked in her works, prompting fundamental questions about photographic representations.
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- Storylines
- Robert Frank is one of the most influential of all post-war photographers. Pioneering a revolutionary approach to photography and filmmaking, he combines autobiographical and poetic elements to produce straight black and white images that transcend the specific. Speaking of universal experience, ‘I’m trying to forget easy photo, trying to make something from within,’ he has said, ‘time moves on and never stops or waits.’ Often involving a progression through a series of images, his work is structured like a musical sequence, creating storylines that resonate beyond the frozen moment of any single photograph.
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- Just like a shadow
- Supporter of intimate and experimental cinematographical screenwriting for the Village Voice since its creation, co-founder of the Anthology Film Archive, at age 78 Jonas Mekas still doesn't care about Hollywood. Actor or witness of all the New York avant-gardes, where this Lithuanian refugee fled during the war. Having spent all his life with his Bolex camera, he never ceased writing a long intimate film from which these photograms were extracted. Jonas Mekas, himself, affirms that cinema »is just a photogram, one single photogram!« All along the book we encounter a great many of his friends such as Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Robert Frank, the Kennedy family, Salvador Dali, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Nico, Gerard Malanga, Allen Ginsberg, Henri Langlois, Stan Brakhage, Jack Kerouac, Lou Reed, Miles Davis and many others, without omitting all those moments, happy or not, which he captured with his camera and his malicious eye.
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- Indian Ocean Journals
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Since the end of the sixties, Max Pam has hit the road armed with his smile and a Hasselblad. He was more interested in the introspection of the people he met than in the beauty of the landscapes he was visiting. All the continents, except for America (which was reserved for Robert Frank, for his friend Plossu and Jack Kerouac), passed in front of his lens. In a few snapshots he succeeded in that rare feat, translate a more precise topography than the Guide du Routard and Lonely Planet combined. With Indian Ocean Journal, Max Pam never strayed very far from the Indian Ocean, always present during his stop-overs in India, Pakistan, Burma, China. He also explored new spaces explored for the first time: Yemen, Tanzania, Kenya.
In this travelogue, he also mentions in writing small occurrences that took place during each trip: encounters, anecdotes, practical information, occasional soul searching that cannot be transcribed on film. But leaving also implies returning and Max Pam never forgets his family, his children, who occasionally pop up as little vignettes, within this outing where time is kept at the rhythm of the ocean waves.
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- One Hour
- Robert Frank’s film One Hour is a single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O’Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattan’s Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July, 1990 the film presents the curious experience of eavesdropping involuntarily on strangers. It appears to be a document of a journey but is also a kind of stream of consciousness retracing the same patterns and spaces. This book is a reprint of a little-known Frank publication first issued by Hanuman Books in 1992, a tiny book, comprising mainly a transcription of the dialogue heard but also two pages of credits: half a dozen production or crew workers and 27 actors. Unravelling the apparent documentary nature of the film, there is also an acknowledgement that the film has a script (by Frank and his assistant, Michal Rovner), that a conversation heard in a diner is written by Mika Moses, and that Peter Orlovsky’s lines (intercepted by Frank roughly halfway through the hour, in front of the Angelika Cinema on Houston Street) are “total improvisation”. The film C’est Vrai (One Hour) will be published as a DVD as part of Steidl’s Robert Frank The Complete Film Works, the first volume of which is published this season.
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- Pull my Daisy
- Pull My Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo, Frank’s then-infant son. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman’s bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy was praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in 1968 that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank.
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- Seven Stories
- After completing The Americans in 1958, Robert Frank put aside the single image and concentrated throughout the 1960s on film-making. He only returned to still-photographs in the 1970s, using a Polaroid camera with black-and-white positive/negative film. He frequently layered the images with text, which he inscribed by hand onto the Polaroid negative. Frank found that these works allowed him more freedom to “destroy that image, that perfect image”. In recent years Robert Frank has worked almost exclusively with Polaroids, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph. Seven Stories brings together sequences of single images Frank has been compiling to create books of new work. As always the photographs and stories relate to Frank’s life and milieu, his homes in Mabou and New York, or a trip to China or Spain. This collection of small books is a new stage in the practice of this remarkable artist who continually challenges the limits of photography and film and strives to avoid repeating himself.
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- Jakob Tuggener
- Jakob Tuggener (1904–1988) was a photographer, film maker and painter. In the major themes of his photographic work – labor in a factory, simple rural life and magnificent parties of high society – Tuggener composed print-ready book maquettes, but for Fabrik alone he found a publisher. Tuggener was presented by Otto Steinert (Exhibition “subjektive fotografie” 1951/53) and – arranged by Robert Frank – by Edward Steichen (Exhibition “Post-War European Photography” and “Family of Man” 1953/55). The Helmhaus in Zurick devoted a retrospective to him in 1974. Tuggener left an immense and practically untouched life work: more than 60 book maquettes, thousands of exhibited photographs and work prints, hundreds of color slides, drawings, watercolors, oil paintings and more than 20 silent films.
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- John Cohen
- John Cohen, born in 1932 in New York, is a photographer, filmmaker, and founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. A masters graduate from Yale University, Cohen participated in the artistic circles of late 1950s and early 1960s New York, and worked with Robert Frank on his film Pull My Daisy (1959). He has made numerous books and films, and produced recordings of traditional American musicians, including Dillard Chandler and Roscoe Holcomb.
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- Shooting Stalin
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He was a contemporary of Alfred Eisenstaedt and Erich Salomon, and just as smart and foolhardy, but today he is not nearly as famous as his legendary colleagues. The American James Abbe published superb photo documentaries from Stalin’s Moscow, about the last years of the Weimar Republic, and from the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War.
Obsessed and fearless, Abbe got close to the dictators of Europe — Hitler, Mussolini, Franco. In 1932, he was the only American given permission to photograph Stalin. Photographs of the rulers of the world became his specialty — “Shooting dictators is great fun!”
In addition, Abbe made contact with Russian film directors and artists such as Sergej Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov und Vsevolod Meyerhold, indulging his passion for film, theater, dance and, above all, whatever happened backstage. Many of his pictures, portraits of Rudolph Valentino, Mae West, Josephine Baker and Charlie Chaplin, have become icons of modern photography. Others, like his portrait of Thomas Mann, remained unknown until their recent discovery. This book provides a cross-section of the rich catalogue of Abbe’s work.
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- Michael by Michel
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Michael Schumacher by Michel Comte: An intimate photographic portrait of the greatest racing driver in history, by a modern master of photography.
With unrivalled access to Michael Schumacher at work and at home, Michel Comte built up an archive of the Formula One World Champion over eight years. This book is a frank portrait of the man who has broken every record in Grand Prix racing history, telling the story of the elite sportsman who shies from the glare of constant publicity and the family man who cherishes his time at home more than anything. This sumptuously printed, case bound book is an exquisite object for the collector interested in fine books, Formula One and the photography of Michel Comte.