The Lines of My Hand

Robert Frank
The Lines of My Hand

Photographs: Robert Frank

Publisher: Yugensha

119 pages

Pictures: 160

Year: 1972

Comments: Original slipcase with mounted cover photograph. 35,5 by 26,5cm. Illustrated Hard cover, one of the 500 copies with the picture of "New York City, 1948" tipped on it. Includes 30 pp. Separate Japanese booklet cataloguing the 160 images which comprise the book. Designed by Kohei Sugiura and Syuhei Tsuji, with drawing by June Leaf. The booklet has some creases otherwise the book is in very good condition.

This candid book includes a number of images from Robert Frank's best-known work, Les Americains, a collection of documentary photographs of everyday American life during the 1950s, particularly among the Beats. Also contains photographs of Frank's family, and images made during his travels abroad in Peru, Spain, England, France. "The publication in Japan was confirmation that the stream-of-consciousness style was the prevailing mode in Japanese photography" (Parr & Badger)