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FRANK, Robert. Storylines. (Göttingen, Germany): Steidl, (2004). First edition. Oblong quarto, original flexible photographic wrappers. In original shrinkwrap -Never opened.
First edition, commemorating the first major exhibit of Frank's work in Britain, a rare association copy warmly inscribed on the half title by Frank to award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley, "For Peter Turnley [drawing of arrow pointing right], good luck on the road, Mpl. April 15.06, Robert Frank," with over 150 images, in black-and-white and color, many appearing in book form for the first time.
Published on the occasion of Robert Frank's first monographic exhibit in Britain, at the time of his eightieth birthday, "Storylines is not a retrospective in the usual sense… It is something much more poetic and elegiac, and as complicated as life itself" (Guardian). As in earlier works such as The Lines of My Hand (1972), Storylines reaffirms that this is a photographer who "doesn't make conventional monographs. Everything…
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