Les Americains by Robert Frank, delpire (18 results)

Condition: Neuf.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. In French.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Comme neuf. 2ème Édition. Paris , 2009. 1 Volume/1. -- Comme Neuf -- Reliure éditeur cartonnée sous jaquette illustrée . Format in-4°oblong ( 22,2 x 24,6 cm )( 996 gr ). --------- 179 pages . ************************ 4ème de Couverture : "Publié dans l'indifférence en 1958, ce livre est devenu un classique. Jugé triste ou pervers, voire subversif, par la presse américaine d' alors, son importance n'a pourtant cessé de croître au fil des années. Car les photographes, les critiques et le grand public ont salué en Robert Frank un véritable novateur. Ce livre n'a rien d'un reportage. Il ne raconte pas le périple d'un homme à travers les Etats-Unis. Il rassemble une suite de notes prises sur le vif par un écorché vif. " ************************* ref 55bse44bs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robert Frank (illustrator). 1st Edition. Publisher's laminated boards designed with illustration by Saul Steinberg, as issued. Boards show some handling smudges, wear at shoulders, a ding at foot edge, scratches, edgewear. One corner heavily bumped. See photos. Spine has black text on turquoise band and is darkened with crushed ends. See photos. Binding is secure. Pastedowns and feps have notable foxing, age toning, owner's marks at rear. See photos. Title page has owner signature. See photos. Illustrations are bright and clear. Interior is uniformly age-toned. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have dust at head, some edgewear at foot.** PS2023.0607** 172 pages. Oblong quarto, 8.25 x 7.25 inches** Les Americains is the most well-known and most influential work by photographer Robert Frank (1924-2019). It is the end product of Frank's journeys around the United States, underwritten by a 1955 Guggenheim Fellowship. Frank traveled some 10,000 miles and took 27,000 photographs, from which he chose eighty-three for this book. Their of-the-moment style was radical at the time; that they look familiar now is proof of the tremendous influence Frank had on the generations of photographers who followed him.** This is the first edition, published in Paris, with texts in French by authors including William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Simone de Beauvoir and others. Not the most beautifully packaged copy, due to the foxing on the end papers and age toning throughout. But Frank's work shines through in this volume, an at once clear-eyed and hopeful look at the photographer's adopted country.** First Edition; fifth volume of the collection "Encyclopedie essentielle" published by Robert Delpire and Jacques Monoroy. Printing completed May 15, 1958.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009723"**.

Quer-8°, 172 S., 83 ganzseitigen s/w. Photographien., Kart., Rückenteil abgelöst (aber fachfrauisch angesetzt.) Etwas berieben, sonst schönes Exemplar EA. (= Encyclopédie essentielle 5. Serie histoire No. 3). Mit Deckelillustration von Saul Steinberg. Eines der wichtigsten Bücher zur Nachkriegsphotographie. - «Robert Frank, geb. 9.11.1924 Zürich, isr., ab 1945 von Zürich. [.] 1941-46 lernte und arbeitete F. bei den Fotografen Hermann Segesser und Michael Wolgensinger in Zürich, bei Victor Bouverat in Genf und bei den Gebrüdern Eidenbenz in Basel; nebenbei Standfotograf für Filme. 1947 wanderte F. nach New York aus (ab 1963 amerikan. Staatsbürger). Arbeitete kurz bei "Harper's Bazaar", um dann als freier Fotograf für versch. Auftraggeber (u. a. "Life") zwischen Europa, Süd- und Nordamerika zu pendeln. Er unterstützte Edward Steichen, Fotograf und Direktor des Photography Department im Museum of Modern Art in New York, bei den Ausstellungen "Post-War European Photography" (1953) und "The Family of Man" (1955) . Dank eines Stipendiums der Guggenheim-Stiftung konnte er 1955-56 auf mehreren Reisen durch die USA seine "visuelle Studie einer Zivilisation" machen. Die Bilder stiessen anfänglich auf Ablehnung, da sie das positive Amerika-Bild unterwanderten und sich über den gängigen fotograf. Kanon hinwegsetzten. F.s vermeintl. Stillosigkeit und unerbittl. Beschreibung alltägl. Tristesse haben aber die Nachkriegsfotografie in Amerika wie Europa nachhaltig geprägt. Eine Auswahl der 20'000 Aufnahmen wurde zuerst 1958 in Frankreich unter dem Titel "Les Américains" veröffentlicht, 1959 in Amerika mit einer Einleitung des Beat-Poeten Jack Kerouac. Mit ihm drehte F. im gleichen Jahr seinen ersten Film "Pull my Daisy", eine Schilderung der amerikan. On-the-Road-Generation. 1961 folgte eine erste Einzelausstellung im Art Institute of Chicago. In den 1960er und 1970er Jahren beschäftigte F. sich v. a. mit experimentellem Film. Er gründete u.a. mit Jonas Mekas die New American Cinema Group (1960). Es entstanden über 25 Filme, sehr oft mit autobiogr. Einschlag. 1972 kam "Lines of My Hand", eine Art fotograf. Autobiografie, heraus. Gegen Ende der 1970er Jahre wandte sich F. auch wieder der Fotografie zu (Collagen und Polaroidbilder), die sich nun v.a. auf sein persönliches, vom Schicksal hart geprüftes Leben konzentrierte. Diese Bilder standen in der melancholisch-grüblerischen Stimmung und der unkonventionellen Form den frühen in nichts nach. Einen grossen Teil seines Werkes schenkte F. 1990 der National Gallery of Art in Washington, die ihn 1994 mit einer Retrospektive als wichtigsten Fotografen unserer Zeit ehrte. Die Ausstellung wurde u. a. 1995 auch in Zürich gezeigt. 2004 widmete ihm die Tate Modern Gallery in London eine grosse Einzelausstellung, die anschliessend in versch. europ. Städten, u.a. in Winterthur, gezeigt wurde. F. lebt heute in New York und Mabou (Nova Scotia, Kanada)» (HLS). 1600 gr. Schlagworte: Photographie.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Bon. Nom précédent propriétaire.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sm.8° Ob. - 172pp - B/w Photo-reproductions. The Americans first edition by Robert Frank (1924-2019) Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. Text in French language. Original hard cover. Previous owner signature, in very good condition.

Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Saul Steinberg-designed laminated boards show a bit of wear & soil with laminate peel/lift at spine edges, front hinge partially cracked with webbing showing but hinges remain tight, mild foxing to prelims and page block edges, a bit musty; with texts (in French) chosen by Alain Bosquet by Simone de Beauvoir, John Brown, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, Richard Wright, Walt Whitman, and others; a Very Good copy; Text in French; sl ob 8vo; 172pp illus.

Oblong 8vo, original laminated boards after a design by Saul Steinberg. Very fine copy, with none of the fading or wear endemic to this book. Very fine copy, with none of the fading or wear endemic to this book First edition, preceding the American edition. "The Delpire first edition Les Américains (1958) is more like a sociological study, wherein Frank's photographs appear as illustrations of the probing texts printed on facing pages, gathered by Alain Bosquet from dozens of illustrious writers. . . . When Barney Rosset at Grove Press agreed to publish The Americans in the U.S., Frank pulled out all the text, leaving only blank pages with captions facing the images, mirroring the layout of Evans's American Photographs. . . . The French edition is sociology, the American edition is poetry." - David Levi Strauss, as quoted by Roth, The Book of 101 Books, p. 150.

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).

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A wonderful clean copy, though with two inches beautifully done restoration of the upper spine. Photos perfect, unusually no dents. Pencil dated in tiny writing on endpaper 12.12.58. Avec (pencil ran out!)les voeux de Mary (and smaller autograph) et Frank.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A BOOK LOVED TO DEATH, oblong 4to, Steinberg boards scotch taped at spine, rather badly, tape browning, INSCRIBED "for gabriele on her birthday, May 17, 1959" in an unknown hand, then INSCRIBED again in a slow, steady clear hand "April 9th, 1983 in NYC happy birthday again Gabriele, Robert Frank" Gabriele Wunderlich was a minor photographer, photo picture editor and friend of Frank. Frank rarely signed books, until much later in life when the overwhelming demand and his unfortunate physical exhaustion made him relent. Even comparatively early ones like this, and esp. personalized are quite scarce In his last twenty yrs virtually every SIGNED Robert Frank book was from either a book signing, a dealer or a collector, not to somone who he knew, or from pity ("I need to pay the rent etc.".vvclst1/2. NO PICS IT IS WHAT IT IS.vvcls1/2. Inscribed by Author(s).

Untertitel: Photographies de Robert Frank.Textes de Simone de Beauvoir, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright et al. Reihe: Serie histoire No.3 Le cinqième livre de la collection Encyclopédie essentielle Untergebiet: Americana Abbildungen: Couverture de Saul Steinberg. Photographies Zustand: Bon état Seiten: 172 S. Format: Quart kl.-8 Einband: Pbd. Gebiet: Photographie.

Condition: Gut. 172 S., 83 ganzseitigen s/w. Photographien. Parr/Badger I, S. 247. Sinibladi-Couturier 120; Hasselblad 172-173; The Open Book p.172-173; MEP une bibliothèque p.20-21. Delpire & Cie p.38. Außergewöhnlich wohlerhaltenes und frisches Exemplar der ersten Ausgabe eines der bedeudtensten Fotobücher der Welt und der Beginn der sogenannten Street-Photography. Robert Frank reiste unterstützt von einem Stipendium der Guggenheim-Foundation 2 Jahre durch die USA und machte in dieser Zeit rund 28.000 Fotos. Nach einem weiteren Jahr der Durchsicht und Auswahl hatte er 83 Fotografien zusammengestellt, fand jedoch in den USA keinen Verleger für dieses Projekt. In Paris druckte dann 1958 Robert Delpire diese vorliegende Buch und der vielleicht einflussreichste Fotoband der Welt eroberte nach und nach die Welt. Die hier vorliegende erste Ausgabe mit Einbandillustrationen von Saul Steinberg und den schwarz/weiss Fotografien von Frank sind Texte u.a. de Beauvoir, Faulkner, Miller, Whitmann u.a. gegenüber gestellt. . Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200 Illustrierter Originalppapband Quer-8°, (Illustrationen Saul Steinberg, dezenter handschriftlicher Schriftzug auf dem Titelblatt).

Frank, Robert (illustrator). First edition. Oblong 8vo., 83 b&w plates from photographs. Glazed paper over boards, with drawings by Saul Steinberg. Aside from a very slight crease to the front board where it joins the spine, a near fine copy. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box in patriotic red, white and blue with die-cut stars along the edges and a 50 starred American flag inset on the upper cover. SIGNED twice. The true first edition of this work, heralded as the most influential photographic book of the second half of this century. Issued without a dust jacket. This copy was been SIGNED with a drawing by Robert Frank on the front free endpaper. The drawing is the outline of a five pointed star which consumes most of the page; in it he has written "STAR - Hello, Robert Frank, Washington, D.C., Sept. 28 '94" and in the upper right corner he has written "from Robert Frank." This copy was inscribed at a special event just prior to the opening of his major retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, October 2, 1994. Parr and Badger, Volume 1, p. 247.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing of Robert Frank's iconic photobook, preceding the American first edition published by Grove Press by nearly a year. Signed by Robert Frank on the title page. Text in French. Bound in publisher's original laminated boards with illustration by Saul Steinberg. Near Fine, with light wear and light soiling to binding, short superficial crack to top of front spine joint, several preliminary leaves lightly creased, hinge slightly exposed at half-title page and page block a little sunken. A lovely copy of Frank's iconic and influential work.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing of Robert Frank's iconic photobook, preceding the American first edition published by Grove Press by nearly a year. Text in French. Bound in publisher's original laminated boards with illustration by Saul Steinberg. Near Fine, with slight lean to binding, light toning to spine with light wear at the spine ends and a small stain to the top edge of the page block. A very sharp and bright copy.