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| 1. |  | Robert Frank 1952, December Cover of "Neuf", no. 8 Magazine cover Private collection |
| 2. |  | Robert Frank 1956 Book cover for "Indiens pas morts" Text by Georges Arnaud. Photographs by Werner Bischof, Robert Frank and Pierre Verger, (Paris: Robert Delpire, 1956) Book cover Private collection |
| 3. |  | Robert Frank 1957 Front cover of the "Evergreen Review" Magazine cover Private collection |
| 4. |  | Robert Frank 1958 Book cover for Robert Frank "Les Américains" Text edited by Alain Bosquet. Cover design by Saul Steinberg. (Paris: Robert Delpire, 1958) Book cover Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, May 15, 2008, #2146, Lot 71) Illustrated with reproductions of Frank's iconic photographs. Small oblong 4to, illustrated laminated boards, lacks head of backstrip. Parr/Badger I 247. first french edition, signed and inscribed by frank, with a mounted photograph on the half-title. |
| 5. |  | Robert Frank 1958 Front cover of "Les Américains" (Paris: Delpire) Book cover Private collection |
| 6. |  | Robert Frank 1958 Back cover of "Les Américains" (Paris: Delpire) Book cover, back Private collection |
| 7. |  | Robert Frank 1959 Book cover for Robert Frank "The Americans." Introduction by Jack Kerouac. (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959) Book cover Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, May 15, 2008, #2146, Lot 72) Illustrated with reproductions of Frank's stunning photographs. Small oblong 4to, gilt-lettered black cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket, lightly soiled and lightly edgeworn, small areas of loss at head and tail of spine. Roth 150; Parr/Badger I 247; Hasselblad 176. first american edition. |
| 8. |  | Robert Frank 1959 Front cover of "the Americans" (New York: Grove Press) Book cover Private collection |
| 9. |  | Robert Frank 1959 Back cover of "the Americans" (New York: Grove Press). Artwork by Alfred Leslie. Book cover, back Private collection |
| 10. |  | Robert Frank 1959 (ca) Book cover for Robert Frank, "New York Is" (New York: the New York Times, [c. 1959]) Book cover Private collection |
| 11. |  | Robert Frank 1959 Front cover of "Gli Americani" (Milan: Il Saggiatore) Book cover Private collection |
| 12. |  | Robert Frank 1960, November/December (issue) Front cover of "Evergreen Review" Magazine cover Private collection |
| 13. |  | Robert Frank 1961 Front cover of "Pull My Daisy" (New York: Grove Press) Book cover Private collection |
| 14. |  | Robert Frank 1962, January Cover of "Du" Magazine cover Private collection |
| 15. |  | Robert Frank 1963 Cover of "Zero Mostel Reads a Book" (New York: New York Times) Book cover Private collection |
| 16. |  | Robert Frank 1963 Book cover for Robert Frank "Zero Mostel Reads a Book" (New York: the New York Times, 1963) Book cover Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, May 15, 2008, #2146, Lot 75) Illustrated with reproductions of Frank's photographs. 8vo, white boards, soiled. first edition, signed and inscribed by Frank, with a drawing. Published "for the fun of it" by the New York Times and dedicated to the American bookseller, this title was never available commercially. |
| 17. |  | Robert Frank 1968 Cover of "the Americans" (New York: Aperture/ Museum of Modern Art), softcover Book cover Private collection |
| 18. |  | Robert Frank 1969 Cover of "the Americans" (New York: Aperture/ Grossman), Hardcover Book cover Private collection |
| 19. |  | Robert Frank 1969, March Magazine cover for "Camera" (March 1969) Magazine cover Private collection |
| 20. |  | Robert Frank 1972 Slipcover for "the Lines of My Hand" by Robert Frank (Tokyo: Yugensha) Slipcover Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd |
| 21. |  | Robert Frank 1972 One of two different slipcovers for "the Lines of My Hand" (Tokyo: Yugensha) Slipcover Private collection |
| 22. |  | Robert Frank 1972 Cover of "the Lines of My Hand" (Tokyo: Yugensha) Book cover Private collection |
| 23. |  | Robert Frank 1972 Book cover for Robert Frank "the Lines of My Hand" (Tokyo: Yugensha/Kazuhiko Motomura, 1972) Book cover Christie's - New York Christies - NY (Sale 2110: Lot 161 - April 10, 2008 - Fine Photobooks from an Important Private Collection) |
| 24. |  | Robert Frank 1972 Cover of "the Lines of My Hand" (New York: Lustrum Press) Book cover Private collection |
| 25. |  | Robert Frank 1976 Cover of "Robert Frank" (Millerton, NY: Aperture) Book cover Private collection |
| 26. |  | Robert Frank 1976 Cover of "Robert Frank" (Paris: Nouvel Observateur/ Delpire) Book cover Private collection |
| 27. |  | Robert Frank 1978 Book cover for the 1978 edition of "The Americans" with photographs by Robert Frank and an introduction by Jack Kerouac (Millerton, NY: Aperture) Book cover Private collection |
| 28. |  | Robert Frank 1983 Cover of "Robert Frank. Collection Photo Poche no. 10" (Paris: Centre National de la Photographie) Book cover Private collection |
| 29. |  | Robert Frank 1983, 4th trimester Cover for "Les Cahiers de la Photographie" (11/12 Special 3, 4th trimester 1983) Journal cover Private collection Contained an article by Stuart Alexander on Robert Frank. |
| 30. |  | Robert Frank 1985 Book cover for "Robert Frank and American Politics" (Akron Art Museum, 1985) Book cover Private collection |
| 31. |  | Robert Frank 1985 Book cover for "Robert Frank: Fotografias/Films 1948/1984" (Valencia: Sala Parpallo/Institucio Alfons el Màgnanim, 1985) Book cover Private collection |
| 32. |  | Robert Frank 1986 Cover of "Die Amerikaner" (Munich: Christian Verlag) Book cover Private collection |
| 33. |  | Robert Frank 1986 Cover of "Die Amerikaner" (Zurich: Buchclub Ex Libris) Book cover Private collection |
| 34. |  | Robert Frank 1986 Cover of "Les Américains" (Paris: Delpire) Book cover Private collection |
| 35. |  | Robert Frank 1986 Cover of "Robert Frank: A Bibliography, Filmography, and Exhibition Chronology 1946-1985" by Stuart Alexander (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography) Book cover Private collection |
| 36. |  | Robert Frank 1986 Cover of "Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia" (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts/ New York Graphic Society) Book cover Private collection |
| 37. |  | Robert Frank 1986 Cover of "the Americans" (New York: Pantheon Books) Book cover Private collection |
| 38. |  | Robert Frank 1987 Cover of "Flower Is" (Tokyo: Yugensha) Book cover Private collection |
| 39. |  | Robert Frank 1987 Cover of one of two different slipcases for "Flower Is" (Tokyo: Yugensha) Slipcase Private collection |
| 40. |  | Robert Frank 1987 Flower is… Folio Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 7, 2006, #2097, Lot 142) |
| 41. |  | Robert Frank 1987 Flower Is… (Tokyo: Yugensha, 1987) Book cover and slipcase Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 2, 2009, Photographs & Photographic Literature, Sale 2199 Lot 86) Introduction by Robert Frank. Designed by Kohei Sugiura with Atsushi Sato. Illustrated with reproductions of Frank's exquisite photographs. Folio, pictorial gray silk; board slipcase with mounted photographic reproduction; in the original shipping box. Parr/Badger I 264; Auer 670. limited edition, one of 500 copies. |
| 42. |  | Robert Frank 1987 One of two different slipcovers for "Flower Is..". (Tokyo: Yugensha) Slipcover Private collection |
| 43. |  | Robert Frank 1988 Book cover for "Robert Frank" Edited by Albano da Silva Pereira and Paulo Mora (Coimbra: Centro de Estudos da Fotografia de Associathao Académica de Coimbra, 1988) Book cover Private collection |
| 44. |  | Robert Frank 1989 Book cover for "the Pictures are a Necessity: Robert Frank in Rochester, NY November 1988" Edited by William S. Johnson Book cover Private collection This is one of the most informative of the obscure publications on the work of Robert Frank. |
| 45. |  | Robert Frank 1989 Book cover for the 1989 edition of "Robert Frank Photographs: The Lines of My Hand" (New York: Pantheon Books) Book cover Private collection |
| 46. |  | Robert Frank 1993 Book cover for Robert Frank "the Americans" (Tokyo: Takarajimasha, 1993) Book cover Private collection |
| 47. |  | Robert Frank 1994 Book cover for "Moving Out" by Robert Frank (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1994) Book cover Private collection |
| 48. |  | Robert Frank 1996 Book cover for "Robert Frank: Flamingo - the Hasselblad Award 1996" by Mikael Van Reis Book cover Arcana: Books on the Arts |
| 49. |  | Robert Frank 1996 Book cover for Robert Frank, Ed Grazda (ed.) "Thank You" (Zurich: Scalo Verlag, 1996) Book cover Private collection |
| 50. |  | Robert Frank 2000 Book cover for Ute Eskildsen, ed., "Robert Frank: Hold Still_Keep Going", (Zurich: Scalo, 2000) Book cover Private collection |
| 51. |  | Robert Frank 2002, November Cover for Robert Frank, Part Two, "du", (November 2002, No.731) Magazine cover Private collection of Ken Burkhart |
| 52. |  | Robert Frank 2003 Book cover for "London / Wales" by Robert Frank (Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003) Book cover Private collection |
| 53. |  | Robert Frank 2003 Cover of "Frank Films", edited Brigitta Burger-Utzer and Stefan Grissemann (Zurich: Scalo/ Sixpackfilm, Vienna) Book cover Private collection |
| 54. |  | Robert Frank 2004 Book cover for "Robert Frank: Storylines" (Steidl Verlag, 2004) Book cover Amazon - France ISBN-10: 3865210414, ISBN-13: 978-3865210418 |
| 55. |  | Robert Frank 2004 Book cover for "Robert Frank: Storylines" (Tate Publishing, 2004) Book cover Amazon - UK ISBN-10: 1854375601, ISBN-13: 978-1854375605 |
| 56. |  | Robert Frank 2005 Cover of "Essays über Robert Frank" (Göttingen: Steidl) Book cover Private collection |
| 57. |  | Robert Frank 2006 Book cover for Robert Frank "Come Again" (Steidl, 2006) Book cover Amazon - UK ISBN-10: 3865212611, ISBN-13: 978-3865212610 |
| 58. |  | Robert Frank 2007 Book cover for "Robert Frank / Words" (Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte, 2007) Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernßndez Blanco/ Ediciones Larivithre, 2007) Book cover Private collection |
| 59. |  | Robert Frank 2007 Book cover for "Robert Frank: Words" (Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2007) Book cover Private collection |
| 60. |  | Robert Frank 2007 Book cover for Robert Frank "Les Américains" (Delpire, 2007) Book cover Amazon - France ISBN-10: 2851072331, ISBN-13: 978-2851072337 |
| 61. |  | Robert Frank 2007 Book cover for Robert Frank "One Hour" (Steidl, 2007) Book cover Amazon - UK ISBN-10: 3865213642, ISBN-13: 978-3865213648 |
| 62. |  | Robert Frank 2008 Book cover for Robert Frank "The Americans" with an introduction by Jack Kerouac (Steidl Publishing; Special edition edition, 2008) Book cover Amazon - Canada ISBN-10: 386521584X, ISBN-13: 978-3865215840 |
| 63. |  | Robert Frank 2008 Book cover for Robert Frank "Peru" (Steidl, 2008) Book cover Amazon - Canada ISBN-10: 3865216927, ISBN-13: 978-3865216922 |
| 64. |  | Robert Frank 2008 Book cover for Robert Frank "Paris" (Steidl, 2008) Book cover Amazon - UK ISBN-10: 3865215246, ISBN-13: 978-3865215246 |
| 65. |  | Robert Frank 2008 Book cover for "Robert Frank: Pull My Daisy: Narration by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Albert Leslie" (Steidl, 2008) Book cover Amazon - UK ISBN-10: 3865216730, ISBN-13: 978-3865216731 |
| 66. |  | Robert Frank 2008 Book cover for Robert Frank "Die Amerikaner" (Steidl Gerhard Verlag, 2008) Book cover Amazon - UK ISBN-10: 3865216587, ISBN-13: 978-3865216588 |
| 67. |  | Robert Frank 2008 Book cover for Robert Frank "The American" [Chinese edition] (Steidl / National Gallery of Art, 2008) Book cover Private collection Also available as an English edition and German edition Robert Frank's The Americans was first published on May 15, 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris. It featured 83 of Frank's photographs taken in America in 1955 and 1956, accompanied by writings in French about American political and social history selected by Alain Bosquet. Delpire's Les Américains formed part of the Encyclopédie essentielle series, which presented foreign countries to a French audience. Each of Frank's photographs in this edition is placed on a right-hand page, with the texts on the left-hand pages. The first English edition of The Americans was published in 1959 by Grove Press in New York. It presented the same photographs as the Delpire edition, however a text by Jack Kerouac replaced the French writings. The book begins with Kerouac's introduction, followed by Frank's photographs in the same sequence as the Delpire edition. On the left-hand pages are short captions from Frank, which describe the location. Since 1959 The Americans has been reprinted by different publishers, in multiple languages and formats. Frank has had varying influence on these editions; some were printed without his input, approval or knowledge. In July 2007 the Steidl edition of The Americans was printed. Frank was involved in every step of its design and production. The 83 photographs were scanned in tritone at Steidl's digital darkroom from vintage prints in Frank's collection, which revealed that many images in past editions were actually crops of the originals. For the Steidl book Frank studied and revised these crops and in many cases included the full photographs; in only a few cases the Delpire and Grove Press compositions remain. The Steidl edition also reproduces two photographs printed from negatives different to those used for all previous editions. These photographs depict the same two subjects as in other editions (Metropolitan Life Insurance Building-New York City and Assembly Line-Detroit), but from a slightly different perspective. Kerouac's text and Frank's captions remain unaltered from the Grove Press edition, the typography however was redesigned. As well as revising the book's design, Frank also chose the paper, endpaper and book linen. He opted for a thread-stitched book, and conceived a new dust jacket made from the same paper as in the book (Xantur 170 g from Scheufelen, Germany), sealing it with a simple varnish. Frank personally oversaw printing on July 18, 2007, inspecting and approving each sheet at Steidl's press in Göttingen. The first Mandarin edition of The Americans ISBN: 978-3-86521-657-1 |
| 68. |  | Robert Frank 2008 Book cover for Robert Frank"Zero Mostel Reads a Book" (Steidl, 2008) Book cover Private collection When Robert Frank had completed his first two films, he accepted a commission for a photo-book from the New York Times, which became Zero Mostel Reads a Book. In it Frank takes the comic actor Zero Mostel (1915-1977) for his subject, and depicts him in cartoonish dimensions-bemused, baffled and apoplectic, as he makes his way through an unidentified hardback volume, seated at a table or on a sofa in a large lounge area. Originally published "for the fun of it" in 1963 and dedicated to the American bookseller, the book was intended as a present for customers yet it never reached the book market. It has been a collector's item since. Zero Mostel Reads a Book references a series of theatrical and playful vignettes in which Mostel's most famous roles-Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in The Producers-are clearly signaled. It is a delightful moment of slapstick in Frank's oeuvre, and directly reflects his emphasis on the moving image at the time. ISBN: 978-3-86521-586-4 |
| 69. |  | Robert Frank 2008 Book cover for Robert Frank "Los Americanos" (Madrid: La Fabrica, 2008) Book cover Private collection |
| 70. |  | Robert Frank 2008 Book cover for Robert Frank "Gli Americani" (Milan: Contrasto, 2008) Book cover Private collection |
| 71. |  | Robert Frank 2009 Book cover for "Le Présent de Robert Frank" by Anne Bertrand (La Rochelle: D'une certaine manithre éditions, 2009) Book cover Private collection |
| 72. |  | Robert Frank 2009 Book cover for Sarah Greenough, ed., "Looking In: Robert Frank's the Americans" (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art/ Steidl, 2009) Expanded Edition Book cover Private collection |
| 73. |  | Robert Frank 2009 Book cover for Robert Frank "Portfolio: 40 Photos, 1941-1946" (Steidl Publishing, 2009) Book cover Amazon - Canada ISBN-10: 386521813X, ISBN-13: 978-3865218131 |
| 74. |  | Robert Frank 2009 Book cover for Robert Frant "Henry Frank, Father Photographer", (Steidl, 2009) Book cover Private collection 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. ISBN: 978-3-86521-814-8 |
| 75. |  | Robert Frank 2009 Book cover for Robert Frank "Frank Films - The Film and Video Work of Robert Frank", (Steidl, 2009) Book cover Private collection "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) Robert Frank turned to filmmaking at the end of the 1950s. Although he has made 27 films, the work is largely a well kept secret. Frank approaches each film project as a new experience, challenging the medium and its possibilities at every turn. He has amalgamated documentary, fiction, and autobiography, cutting across genres. This book offers a visually unique approach to Frank's films: only new stills taken from videotapes have been used and they add up to a visual essay on Frank's cinema that establishes an engaging dialogue with his photographic work. Each film is introduced with detailed analysis, discussing the history and the aesthetics of Frank's film work. An interview with Allen Ginsberg provides an insider view. Together the texts and images offer an innovative and in-depth approach to the oeuvre of one of the greatest and most restless artists of the 20th century. ISBN: 978-3-86521-815-5 |
| 76. |  | Robert Frank 2010 Slipcase and cover for Robert Frank "Seven Stories" (Steidl Publishing, April 2010) Slipcase and book cover Amazon - Canada ISBN-10: 3865217893, ISBN-13: 978-3865217899 |
| 77. |  | Robert Frank 2010 Book cover for Robert Frank "Tal Uf Tal Ab" (Steidl Publishing, 2010) Book cover Amazon - Canada ISBN-10: 3869301015, ISBN-13: 978-3869301013 |
| 78. |  | Robert Frank 2010 Book cover for Robert Frank "Black, White and Things" (Steidl Publishing, 2010) Book cover Amazon - Canada ISBN-10: 3865218083, ISBN-13: 978-3865218087 |
| 79. |  | Robert Frank 2011 Cover of exhibition catalogue "Spaces, Places and Identity: Robert Frank 'Portraits'" (Collegeville, Pennsylvania: Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, 2011 Book cover Private collection |