robert frank the americans, Erstausgabe (147 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very good, very good. First Printing. 25 cm, 272, publisher's ephemera laid in.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear and tear to dust jacket, now wrapped in protective sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.73.

First edition thus. Oblong hardcover. A larger and more accessible sized version of Frank's seminal first book. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Simply put, this is one of the most important photography books and its influence can't be overstated. A very near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of this classic. (Parr & Badger 247; Roth 150-151).

Hardcover. First printing of this 50th anniversary edition, with publisher's red wraparound band. Publisher's promotional booklet laid in. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Steidl Edition. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good dust jacket and Very Good wrap-around band. Spine white with red band and black text. Dust jacket and wrap-around band are in a mylar protective cover. Dust jacket and band both show minor shelf wear on covers, edges, and fore corners. Very light vertical dent across dust jacket back. Boards show very light scuffing on covers. Faint vertical scrape across rear board, which causes minor bowing and corresponds to dent in dust jacket. Spine is slightly cocked. Text block shows light age toning around edges of pages. Signed flat in black marker by Robert Frank on title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Room C. This edition is the first 50th Anniversary Edition of Robert Frank's classic. 1399574. Special Collections.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Scalo Edition. 179pp. Black pictorial, stiff wraps.Light wear to the corner tips, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. "In this volume of 83 deeply moving and unconventional photographs, Robert Frank portrays the shops, funeral parlors, and Fourth of July jamborees, of picnics, newsstands, crap tables, cocktail parties, jam sessions, and the drive-in movies. Here is the face of America illuminated by an unusual talent" Size: Oblong 9 1/4" x 8 1/2".

Hardback. First Edition. 24 x 30cm 506p near fine hardback in dust jacket packed with essays together with black and white reproductions showing some of Frank's most iconic works - a one man study of American society. A very heavy book, may need extra postage. Near fine in near fine dustjacket.

First Pantheon edition. Oblong hardcover. 174 pages. Features an introduction by Jack Kerouac. A collection of Frank's classic black and white photographs taken on his tour of America. Simply put, this is one of the most important photography books of the 20th century and it's influence can't be overstated. A clean and tight near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a near fine price clipped dust jacket with some very minor wear. A nice copy of this classic. (Parr & Badger 247; Roth 150-151).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Former owner's nameplate pasted onto front endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of covers and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to covers and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.64.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Thus. A FINE FIRST THUS EDITION IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. Hardcover in jacket, First Pantheon Edition, expanded from the 1950s original printing.no remainder mark.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 506 pages. An expanded edition of this catalog. Published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition. Features text by Sarah Greenough, Stuart Alexander, Philip Brookman, Michel Frizot, Martin Gasser, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Luc Sante, and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Includes 168 tritones, 210 duotones, and 114 color images and features all of the images from Frank's seminal book "The Americans" along with contact sheets and variations. A clean near fine copy in red cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket and with a very good plus obi that has some creasing and minor wear. Please note that this is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

Hardcover. First printing of this revised edition. An expanded edition of this catalog, published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art from January 18 through April 26, 2009, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from May 16 through August 23, 2009, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 22 through December 27, 2009. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, with the publisher's wraparound band. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (stated), First Printing thus, 1959. A Poor copy due to a 6 page grouping detached (but present). Ex-library with a sticker stain to the spine. Internally the photo plates are clean except for three which have library rubber stamps in the margins. The title page is stamped and overstamped with "Discarded" and a library pocket is attached to the rear endpaper. The Kerouac introduction is unmarked except for a small rubber stamped "80" in the margin of page i and some light smudges. The covers show rubbing to the spine titles and edges and light shelf wear. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. FIRST. A FINE FIRST EDITION IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. INSCRIBED BY GORDON PARKS. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Zustand: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. Frühe Arbeiten. The Americans. Aufnahmen 1958-1961. Die Filme Robert Franks. Biographische Notiz sowie 7 Farbaufnahmen von Harry M. Callahan und ein (Text)-Beitrag von Hans Finsler über Edward Steichen. 68 Seiten, 24.5 x 32.5 cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Wie neu. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Gut. 1. Auflage. In 1950, Robert Frank, a key figure in photographic history, 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 1959, which gave rise to a distinct new form in the photobook, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy (1959). Fester Einband / Leineneinband 64 Seiten, 25,3 x 25,3 cm, 661 g.

hardcover. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). Revised ed. Oblong 8vo, First printing of the revised and enlarged edition of 1969 with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Fine copy in very good dust jacket.

hardcover. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). Revised ed. Oblong 8vo, First printing of the revised and enlarged edition of 1969 with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

First edition thus. Small oblong hardcover. The first revised edition of Frank's iconic book. Features the brilliant introduction by Jack Kerouac which was in the Grove edition but not the Delpire version. Includes the full complement of black and white images from the original edition but also with the first appearance of black and white stills from Frank's movies. A near fine copy in black cloth boards with a small former owner signature to the front pastedown and in a fair only dust jacket with some small chips, and long tears and splits and extensive tape repairs.

First American edition; (183 x 208 mm, 7¼ x 8¼ in); 83 black & white photographs printed in gravure, light foxing to edges; plain endpapers, light foxing, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in gold, white photo-illustrated dust-jacket printed in black, black and red collage by Alfred Leslie on the lower panel, light foxing and toning, closed nick to head of spine and lower panel bottom edge, trace from tape removal to verso, a near-fine copy in an lovely dust-jacket; [iv], vi, 170pp. The first American edition of Frank's masterpiece, after Robert Delpire's Les Américains, was published in France the previous year. The Americans follows a careful and complex sequence, with four chapters, each introduced by a photograph of the American flag. In his successful application for the Guggenheim grant that allowed him to make this work Frank wrote: 'The project I have in mind is one that will shape itself as it proceeds. The material is there; the practice will be in the photographer's hand, the vision in his mind! Between April 1955 and June 1956 he set out on a series of trips across America. His aim was to complete a body of work that would be 'a broad, voluminous picture record of things American, past and present. A visual study of a civilisation.' For this, the defining edition, Frank stripped the texts which appeared opposite the photographs in Delpire's edition and added an introduction by Jack Kerouac, who writes, 'What a poem this is, what poems can be written about this book of pictures some day by young new writers. Whether 'tis the milk of humankind-ness, or human-kindness, Shakespeare meant, makes no difference when you look at these pictures. Better than a show. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world!' Like Vladimir Nabakov, Frank saw 1950s America as no American could have seen it, 'the loneliness, alienation, rootlessness, and sadness of automobile-happy mid-century America. David Levi Strauss referred to the French edition as sociology, whereas the American edition is poetry. And as Kerouac writes 'Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see?' With this book, Frank galvanised photography for his generation and has influenced, in some way, every other generation since. The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century pp150-1; The Photobook: A History I. p247; The Open Book: A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present pp176-7; 802 photo books from the M + M Auer collection p375.

'Les Américains. Photographies de Robert Frank. Paris, Encyclopédie Essentielle, Robert Delpire Éditeur, 1958': First edition, inscribed in black ink on half-title; oblong 8vo (185 x 210 mm, 7¼ x 8¼in); black & white photographs printed in gravure by Draeger Frères, Montrouge, texts by various authors selected by Alain Bosquet, occasional minor spotting; plain thick endpapers, sewn headband, laminated white paper-covered boards illustrated with an illustration by Saul Steinberg printed in light blue, black, and red, lightly toned, light creasing to upper joint, an excellent association copy in Motomura Kazuhiko's card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side; 172, [2]pp. 'New York Is. [New York], [New York Times Company], [1959]': First edition, signed in black ink on verso of front free endpaper; 4to (285 x 209 mm, 11¼ x 8¼in); black & white photographs, introduction by Gilbert Millstein, light toning to edges; black front and red rear endpapers, printed paper-covered boards, white, titles in black, light toning to edges, light wear to head and foot of spine, top corner bumped, without the laid in letter from the advertising director, an excellent copy in Motomura Kazuhiko's card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side; [56]pp. 'The Americans. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. New York, An Aperture Book, Grossman Publishers, 1969.': Second edition, revised and enlarged, inscribed in black ink; oblong 8vo (183 x 208 mm, 7¼ x 8¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in 'stonetone' offset by Rapoport Printing Corp., New York, introduction by Jack Kerouac, afterword by Robert Frank with details of the four films he made 1959-68, occasional light spotting, light marking to edges, printer's ink mark to one page; plain endpapers, light spotting, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in gold, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black, minor toning, lightly marked, an excellent copy in Motomura Kazuhiko's card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side; [iv], vi, [182]pp. 'London / Wales. Zurich, Berlin, New York, Scalo, 2003.': First edition, inscribed in black ink on half-title; 4to (239 x 193 mm, 9½ x 7½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset; plain endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in grey, photo- illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black, minor shelfwear, near-fine in Motomura Kazuhiko's card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side, photocopy of list exhibited works shown at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington laid in; 126, [2]pp. Motomura Kazuhiko was a civil servant who grew up watching Akira Kurosawa films, which led to his interest in visual art and black-and-white photography. He was an important collector of photographs and photography books and a tireless champion of Japanese photographers, promoting their work and supporting their books and exhibitions. He published four books over a 37-year period: Robert Frank's The Lines of My Hand (1972), Flower Is (1987), and The Americans: 81 Contact Sheets (2009); Jun Morinaga's River, its shadow of shadows (1978); and helped organise or distribute others, including Mochizuki Masao's Television (2001) and Suzuki Kiyoshi's Tenmaku No Machi [A Town of Tents]: Mind Games (1982). In 1960, Motomura worked as a tax officer. While still employed, he enrolled in the Shashin S g Senmon Gakk (now Tokyo College of Photography), where he was taught by Ishimoto Yasuhiro and Shigemori Koen. After participating in the demonstrations against the 1960 renewal of the US-Japanese security treaty, Motomura resigned from his position, fearing that his employers might penalise him. While studying photography, Motomura was introduced to Robert Frank's work when he saw the portfolio of thirty-eight photographs in US Camera Annual 1958 (of which twenty-three would appear in The Americans). Ishimoto Yasuhiro recommended that he buy Les Américains instead of The Americans because he thought the printing was better. Motomura met and befriended Morinaga Jun at the Tokyo College of Photography. Morinaga assisted W. Eugene Smith on a commission for Hitachi that would become Japan: Chapter of Image (1963). Through Morinaga, Motomura met W. Eugene Smith, who introduced him to Robert Frank as a favour in return for Motomura helping Smith to organise a retrospective exhibition in Tokyo. In October 1970, Motomura and his classmate Hataya Norio travelled to New York to meet Robert Frank. During this trip, Motomura also visited W. Eugene Smith and his fiancé Aileen, and they discussed the idea of travelling to Minamata in Southern Japan to photograph the devastating effects of mercury poisoning on the local populace. In 1971, Smith and Aileen moved to Minamata, where they spent three years photographing and researching the devastating effects of mercury poisoning on the local populace. While working on the Minamata project, Smith's initial living costs in Japan were covered by Motomura Kazuhiko. When Motomura first met with Frank, Aileen acted as an interpreter. Frank recounts this first meeting in the preface to The Lines of My Hand, in which he writes of how he was visited by two Japanese editors and inspired by their respect for his art and their eagerness to publish his book in Japan, a project he describes as reviving his interest in photography at a time when he had abandoned it for filmmaking: 'Well, one evening early late or middle last November, two Japanese gentlemen rang my bell on the Bowery. Mr. Kazuhiko Motomura and Mr. Toshio [Norio] Hataya did not speak any English or where [sic] too shy to try. They brought a girl who translated. I remember the evening very well. They said that they had always liked my photographs. They came to New York to ask my permission to have a book published of my work. Something like that had never happened to me. I was impressed and happy. They also gave me a small excellent taperecorder [sic] on which part of our conversation was recorded. Then they apologised.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First Grove Press edition. Dust jacket shows minor to moderate wear, tear, chipping, and tanning. Bookplate of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages lightly tanned and clean. Introduction by Jack Kerouac.

First edition and first printing. Small oblong hardcover. First published in France in 1958 as "Les Americains" this was the first edition to include Jack Kerouac's terrific introduction. An often intimate collection of black and white photographs taken by Frank throughout the country. An about very good copy in black cloth boards with the text block having been skillfully recased by an expert conservator who also replaced the original endpapers and with the bookplate of photographer Joseph Jachna affixed to the front pastedown and in an about very good dust jacket that has numerous chips and tears and with a large chunk missing from the base of the spine that extends to the rear panel. Signed by Frank on the half title page with a lengthy inscription by him as well: "For Bill who has liked these photographs a long time ago. for meeting him, one cold afternoon in Chicago where the past got into the future. Good luck. Robert Frank. Jan 71." Despite the issues a pleasing copy with an interesting provenance and a great inscription. Easily one of the most important and influential photography books of the 20th century. (Parr & Badger v1, 247; Roth 150-151).

First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Jack Kerouac wrote in his preface of The Americans, "Robert Frank he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes." Frank's Americans eventually achieved legendary status as "the most renowned photobook of all It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank's masterpiece" (Parr & Badger I:247). "From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them into four chapters 'With these photographs,' he later wrote, 'I have attempted to show a cross-section of the American population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal' Such a simple intention for a book that would so alter the course of modern photography" (Roth, 150).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Frank and inscribed to "MacDowell Aug .18.02 For Mr William Banks under trees in a wonderful country Robert Frank". William Banks was the longest standing board member of the MacDowell Colony, which is the oldest art colony in the United States. Bound in publisher's original black cloth binding with gilt titles on spine. Near Fine with light fading to cloth at edges, cloth worn through in small patches at bottom corners and a tiny spot to the bottom textblock edge, pages lightly tanned and lightly bumped at the bottom corners. In a Very Good restored dust jacket with some mended tears and infill. An outsider's nuanced view of American society, as seen through the Swiss-born photographer's lens.

First edition and first printing. Small oblong hardcover. First published in France in 1958 as "Les Americains" this was the first edition to include Jack Kerouac's terrific introduction. Sixty years later Frank's images seem every bit as fresh now as they were a revelation then. A tight close to near fine copy in black cloth boards with some slight rubbing to the lettering on the spine and with a contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper. No dust jacket. A solid copy of easily one of the most important and influential photography books of the 20th century. (Parr & Badger v1, 247; Roth 150-151).

First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original boards illustrated by Saul Steinberg. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. ack Kerouac wrote in his preface of The Americans, "Robert Frank he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes." Frank's Américains eventually achieved legendary status as "the most renowned photobook of all It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank's masterpiece" (Parr & Badger I:247). "From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them into four chapters 'With these photographs,' he later wrote, 'I have attempted to show a cross-section of the American population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal' Such a simple intention for a book that would so alter the course of modern photography" (Roth, 150).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Presentation copy signed by Robert Frank on the half-title, inscribed to former owner "an old book on my 60th Birthday New York City Nov. 9 1984 good luck [signed] Robert Frank." 178, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in silver. Second Aperture edition. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with a little toning and rubbing, small scrape to front panel bottom corner, closed tear near head. A signed copy of the classic photography book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First American Edition. unpaginated. 83 black and white photographs. Black Cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Toning to the pages, once corner bumped,.and a light dampstain on the bottom edge of a few of the first and last pages, not affecting the text or photos. and publisher's stamp (Grove Press Library) on the front and rear endpapers. Internally a clean, tight copy. The price-clipped pictorial jacket is significantly wrinkled on the covers and spine, with closed tears, and small chips on the front and rear extremities. in mylar sleeve In this volume of 83 deeply moving and unconventional photographs, "Robert Frank portrays the shops, funeral parlors, and Fourth of July jamborees, of picnics, newsstands, crap tables, cocktail parties, jam sessions, and the drive-in movies. Here is the face of America illuminated by an unusual talent" Size: Octavo.

First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original boards illustrated by Saul Steinberg. In near fine condition. Jack Kerouac wrote in his preface of The Americans, "Robert Frank, he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes." Frank's Américains eventually achieved legendary status as "the most renowned photobook of all It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers. Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank's masterpiece" (Parr & Badger I:247). "From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them into four chapters 'With these photographs,' he later wrote, 'I have attempted to show a cross-section of the American population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal' Such a simple intention for a book that would so alter the course of modern photography" (Roth, 150).