steidl national gallery of art washington dc (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Gray cloth binding by WELL-KNOWN PUBLISHER STEIDL (Germany). No markings and is CLEAN, COMPLETE, AND TIGHT. Colorful pictorial dust-Jacket is also in FINE CONDITION. Inside DJ Flap: "Jim Dine has purposely embraced drawing since the 1970's and is today considered one of America's greatest living draftsmen. His images of tools , his self-portraits, and his studies from nature and after antiquity are among the most accomplished and beautiful drawings of our time." "This exhibition was organized by the National gallery of Art, Washington. Exhibition dates 21 March - 1 August 2004." Also accompanying book is an inserted card stating" "Please accept this catalogue with the compliments of the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art. This book came from a private collector who has art by Jim Dine. Steidl is a world renown publisher. First Edition as stated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Robert Frank (illustrator). First Edition. 2009. xxii, 374pp. "First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just his subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even the road itself--that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally and linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 50 years ago. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this prescient book. Drawing on newly examined archival sources, it provides a fascinating in-depth examination of the making of the photographs and the book's construction, using vintage contact sheets, work prints and letters that literally chart Frank's journey around the country on a Guggenheim grant in 1955-1956. Curator and editor Sarah Greenough and her colleagues also explore the roots of The Americans in Frank's earlier books, which are abundantly illustrated here, and in books by photographers Walker Evans, Bill Brandt and others. The 83 original photographs from The Americans are presented in sequence in as near vintage prints as possible. The catalogue concludes with an examination of Frank's later reinterpretations and deconstructions of The Americans, bringing full circle the history of this resounding entry in the annals of photography. This richly illustrated paperback edition of Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" contains several engaging essays by curator Sarah Greenough that explore the roots of this seminal book, Frank's travels on a Guggenheim fellowship, the sequencing of The Americans and the book's impact on his later career. In addition, essays by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Stuart Alexander, Martin Gasser, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Michel Frizot and Luc Sante offer focused analyses of Frank's relationship with Louis Faurer, Edward Steichen, Gotthard Schuh, Walker Evans, Robert Delpire and Jack Kerouac, while Philip Brookman writes about his work with Frank on several exhibitions in the last 30 years. This paperback edition also reproduces many of Frank's earlier photographic sequences, as well as all of the photographs in The Americans and selected later works. Show less" Minor bump to bottom of spine and a slight crease to top outer corner of front cover. Otherwise the book is in excellent condition with no inscriptions. PLEASE NOTE: heavy book so extra will be needed for shipping to non-UK customers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Extensive catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Jan. 18-Apr. 26, 2009 and travelling. Contents: Zurich to New York, 1924-1954. Resisting intelligence : Zurich to New York / Sarah Greenough ; Robert Frank and Louis Faurer / Anne Wilkes Tucker ; Robert Frank and Edward Steichen / Stuart Alexander -- Guggenheim fellowship, 1955-1957. Disordering the senses : Guggenheim fellowship / Sarah Greenough ; Robert Frank and Gotthard Schuh / Martin Gasser ; Robert Frank and Walker Evans / Jeff L. Rosenheim -- The Americans, 1958-1959. Transforming destiny into awareness : the Americans / Sarah Greenough ; Robert Frank and Robert Delpire ; Interview with Robert Delpire / Michel Frizot ; Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac / Luc Sante -- Destroying The Americans, 1960-2008. Blowing down Bleecker Street : destroying The Americans / Sarah Greenough ; The silence of recognition : exhibiting Robert Frank's Americans / Philip Brookman. xxi, 374 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, reading crease to spine. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Hardcover exhibition catalog with dustjacket, 192 pages, as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra for this item.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). As new copy in like dust jacket with original red wraparound band. The Expanded Edition that accompanied an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book was signed by photographer Robert Frank on the title page after an interview he gave with Sarah Greenough, the exhibition's curator, who also signed the book. Photographs of Robert Frank, his wife and Sarah Greenough leaving the National Gallery and of Robert Frank signing the book are included. A wonderful opportunity to own this signed landmark publication. Signed by Illustrator(s).

First 50th Anniversary edition of the photographer's classic work. Oblong quarto, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Robert Frank on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Uncommon signed. 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).