les americains de robert frank, Edition originale (14 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Robert Frank (illustrateur). 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"**.

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.

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).

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. Edition originale. Paris, Delpire, 15 mai 1958, édition originale. Cinquième opus de la collection "Encyclopédie essentielle" réalisé par Robert Delpire et Jacques Monory. Cartonnage d'éditeur illustré avec un détail d'un dessin de Saül Steinberg, 190 x 215mm. 174 pages, 83 photographies n/ b reproduites en héliogravure avec le texte en regard. Textes de Simone de Beauvoir, Bernard Iddings Bell, John Brown, Erskine Caldwell, F. R. de Chateaubriand, Stephen Crane, John Dewey, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, André Maurois, Henry Miller, Franklin-D. Roosevelt, Claude Roy, André Siegfried, John Steinbeck, Adlaï Stevenson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harry S. Truman, George Washington, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright etc. réunis et présentés par Alain Bosquet. Exemplaire très frais. Schweizer Fotobücher p. 218 / Parr & Badger I p. 247 / M+M Auer 375 / Open Book, p.172.

Etat : 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.

Hardcover. Etat : 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.

First edition; oblong 8vo (185 x 210 mm, 7¼ x 8¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Draeger Frères, Montrouge, texts by various authors selected by Alain Bosquet; plain endpapers, laminated white paper-covered boards illustrated with an illustration by Saul Steinberg printed in light blue, black, and red, spine leaning, head and foot of spine tapped, fine; 172, [2]pp. An uncommonly fine copy of the first published edition of Robert Frank's The Americans, a book that altered the course of twentieth-century photography and held a mirror to the American people. In his successful application for a Guggenheim grant, 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. He aimed 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.' Les Américains follows a careful and complex sequence, with four chapters, each exploring a different aspect of American culture and introduced by a photograph of the American flag. In this, the first edition, the photographs are accompanied by a series of texts by various writers selected by Alain Bosquet. Regards à travers Le Livre 120; The Open Book pp172 3; The Photobook: A History I, p247; Auer Collection p375; Swiss Photobooks pp218 227, pp666 7.

First edition, first printing, of Robert Frank's masterpiece, in which his photographs are accompanied by text by authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, and John Steinbeck. Frank's work "has become so much the photobook of legend in its first American edition that it is often forgotten that Delpire's original Paris edition was a different book. Its accompanying texts, gathered by Alain Bosquet, placed it more in a socio-documentary context - with a politically antagonistic, even anti-American point of view. What has made this arguably the most renowned photobook of all? Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, the majority of the pictures are instantly memorable, 'dry, lean, and transparent,' as John Szarkowski has said of them, yet also weighty and profound, even heartstopping. Secondly, there is the sequencing. Ideas ebb and flow, are introduced, discarded, recapitulated, transfigured, transposed, played off and piled up against each other with the exuberant energy of a Charlie Parker saxophone solo" (Parr & Badger). Parr & Badger I, p. 247; Roth 101, pp. 150-51. Oblong octavo. Original laminated boards decorated with a design by Saul Steinberg, lettering to spine in black, lettering to front cover in black and red. No dust jacket issued. Full page monochrome photographs throughout by Frank. Very minor toning to spine, light spotting to endpapers otherwise an excellent copy.

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).

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.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. A spectacular copy. Signed by Robert Frank in a very steady hand. True First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. First published on 15 May 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris as part of its Encyclopédie Essentielle series. Writings by Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck were included, that Delpire positioned opposite Frank's photographs.[Oblong 8vo, original laminated boards. Cover design by Saul Steinberg. Precedes the First American edition by Grove Press in 1959. A sharp copy with the slightest bit of rubbing. Signed by Author(s).

Etat : 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.

Frank, Robert (illustrateur). 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.

Hardcover. Etat : 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).