Robert Frank: Good Days Quiet

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Robert Frank

Good Days Quiet

Robert Frank

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English

Steidl Verlag
09 September 2019

Individual photographers

"In this, Robert Frank's newest book, he both acknowledges and moves beyond his acclaimed visual diaries (2010-17), which juxtapose iconic photos from throughout his career with the more personal pictures he makes today and suggestive, often autobiographical text fragments.

In Good Days Quiet Frank's focus is life inside and outside his beloved weather-beaten wooden house in Mabou, where he has spent summers for decades with his wife June Leaf. Among portraits of Leaf, Allen Ginsberg and Frank's son, are images of the house's simple interior with its wood-fuelled iron stove, humble furniture and bare light bulbs, as well as views of the land and sea by the house: snow-covered, windswept, stormy or lit by the dying sun.

Frank's Polaroids scanned for the book show various deliberate states of deterioration and manipulation at his hands, including texts that move from the merely descriptive (""watching the crows"") to the emotive (""memories,"" ""grey sea-old house / can you hear the music""). As

always in Frank's books, his message lies primarily in the photos' lyrical sequence, an influential approach to the photobook pioneered by and today well at home in his 93-year-old hands.

Time and tide wait for no man. Rober t Frank"

By: Robert Frank
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9783958295506
ISBN 10: 3958295509
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 09 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Frank was born in Zurich in 1924 and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book The Americans, first published in English in 1959, which gave rise to a distinctly new form of the photobook, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy(1959). Frank's other important projects include the books Black White and Things (1954), The Lines of My Hand (1972) and the film Cocksucker Blues for the Rolling Stones (1972). He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.

Reviews for Robert Frank: Good Days Quiet

Good days Quiet appears more personal and open - it reads like a diary without narrative and unfolds as a series of impressions, loosely arranged and deeply felt.--Sabrina Mandanici Collector Daily