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portada Peru: Photographs by Robert Frank
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2008
Language
English
Pages
48
Format
Hardcover
Weight
1
ISBN
3865216927
ISBN13
9783865216922
Edition No.
01
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Peru: Photographs by Robert Frank

Robert Frank (Author) · Steidl · Hardcover

Peru: Photographs by Robert Frank - Robert Frank

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Synopsis "Peru: Photographs by Robert Frank "

In March 1949, Robert Frank mailed a birthday gift to his mother in Switzerland: A maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru between June and December of the previous year. Frank assembled an identical book for himself, and these two maquettes now reside in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. A few of the images are well known in Frank's oeuvre, but until now very few people have seen the entire series--which, in 1949, already displayed the hallmark of Frank's distinctive image-sequencing. Peru also exhibits an ease and flexibility that Frank himself confirms: "I was very free with the camera. I didn't think of what would be the correct thing to do; I did what I felt good doing. I was like an action painter." Using a hand-held 35mm Leica camera, Frank documented the country's massive vistas, weathered faces, manual labor and dusty roads stretching to the horizon with a spontaneity of motion that propels the viewer into the midst of the scenery. For the first time, and under the direction of Frank himself, this book presents the complete sequence of images. Peru is a work of major significance in both the artist's history and the history of photography. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Robert Frank
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Robert Frank fue un fotógrafo y cineasta suizo-estadounidense considerado una de las figuras más influyentes de la fotografía documental del siglo XX. Nacido en Zúrich en 1924, emigró a Estados Unidos después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y desarrolló una mirada profundamente personal sobre la sociedad norteamericana. Su trabajo rompió con la fotografía documental clásica mediante imágenes espontáneas, encuadres imperfectos y una sensibilidad melancólica que capturaba desigualdad, soledad y contradicciones culturales. Frank observaba Estados Unidos como alguien fascinado y desconcertado al mismo tiempo, algo que terminó convirtiendo sus fotografías en un retrato mucho más honesto que cómodo. Digamos que no vino a fotografiar postales turísticas precisamente.

Su obra más célebre es The Americans, publicada originalmente en 1958, un fotolibro revolucionario compuesto por imágenes tomadas durante viajes por distintos estados norteamericanos gracias a una beca Guggenheim. El libro, inicialmente criticado por mostrar una visión áspera y poco idealizada del país, terminó transformándose en una referencia absoluta para generaciones de fotógrafos y artistas visuales. Frank también dirigió películas experimentales y documentales, explorando temas relacionados con identidad, memoria y contracultura, siempre desde una estética libre y profundamente autobiográfica.
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Martin Corriveau Monday, February 10, 2025
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An exact rendering of Robert Frank's own book templatenfor the book, in all its qualities and flaws. Photos are organised and cropped exactly the way Frank had it. It's only missing the letter to his mother. Good quality print. Some added material would have been nice, such as contact sheets that could have helped contextualise his photo selection, but this is a choice from Steidl to publish the book as is, rather than putting more effort into it.

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 Anonymous User Thursday, June 12, 2025
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Era lo que esperaba, un clásico de la fotografía del siglo XX

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