London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank
London Wales

Photographs: Robert Frank

Publisher: Scalo

Year: 2003

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 24,5 x 20 cm, first edition (published 4 years before the Steidl edition in 2007) b&w photographs. Text in English. In very good condition other than a scratch and a tiny bumped on corners without affecting the pages. COPY SIGNED BY Robert Frank.

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"War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority. Love, Paris, and Flowersbut London was black, white, and gray, the elegance, the style, all present in front of always changing fog. Then I met a man from Wales talking about the Miners and I had read How Green Was My Valley. This became my only try to make a 'Story'." Robert Frank

London/Wales brings together two distinct bodies of work to reveal a new understanding of Franks contribution to the history of photography. Juxtaposing the world of money and the world of work in post-war England, Frank photographed London bankers, workers, and children, and Welsh coal miners and their families. These images poetically evoke relationships between the classes during a time of change in Britain. Setting a significant documentary precedent for Franks best known work, The Americans, London/Walesdemonstrates the artists early interest in social commentary, the narrative potential of photographic sequencing and his innovative use of the expressionistic qualities of the medium.


Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

Robert Frank,London Wales

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