Paris

Informationen zum Autor Robert Frank! geboren 1924 in Zürich! ging 1947 in die Vereinigten Staaten. 1958 erschien sein Buch The Americans! ein bahnbrechendes Werk! das aus ganz neuer Perspektive auf die Amerikaner blickte und die Ästhetik des Fotobuchs revolutionierte. Weitere seiner Bücher sind Black White and Things und The Lines of My Hand. Zu seinen wichtigsten Filmen zählen Pull My Daisy und Cocksucker Blues. Franks Arbeiten werden weltweit ausgestellt. Robert Frank starb am 9. September 2019 im Alter von 94 Jahren. Ute Eskildsen! geboren 1947 in Itzehoe! studierte Fotografie und Fotografiegeschichte an der Folkwang Universität der Künste und war von 1991 bis 2012 stellvertretende Direktorin des Museums Folkwang in Essen. Sie leitete dort außerdem als Kuratorin die fotografische Sammlung und hat zahlreiche Bücher zu unterschiedlichen Fotografen und zur Fotografie herausgegeben. Im Jahr ihrer Ernennung zur stellvertretenden Direktorin des Museums Folkwang wurde sie auf Vorschlag des französischen Kulturministers Jack Lang in den Orden der "Chevaliers des Arts et de Lettres" aufgenommen. 2009 bekam sie den Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland verliehen. Ute Eskildsen gilt als Doyenne der deutschen Fotoszene. Klappentext The publication of "Paris" marks the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. Having left Switzerland in 1924! this 1951 trip to France was only Frank's second return to Europe after he had settled in New York City in 1947! and some of the images he made during that visit have become iconic in the history of the medium. The 80 photographs reproduced here! which were selected by Frank and editor Ute Eskildsen! suggest that Frank's experience of the "new world" had sharpened his eye for European urbanism. He saw the city's streets as a stage for human activity and focused particularly on the flower sellers. His work clearly references Atget and invokes the tradition of the flaneur. Zusammenfassung Paris is the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950's have been brought together in a single book. His visit to Paris in 1951 was his second return to Europe after he had settled in New York City in 1947 and some of the images he made during that visit have become iconic in the history of the medium. The 80 photographs selected by Robert Frank and Ute Eskildsen suggest that Frank's experience of the new world had sharpened his eye for European urbanism. He saw the city's streets as a stage for human activity and focused particularly on the flower sellers. His work clearly references Atget and invokes the tradition of the flaneur....

Product details

• Authors: Ute Eskildsen, Robert Frank
• Assisted by: Ute Eskildsen (Editor), Robert Frank (Editor)
• Publisher: Steidl Druckerei und Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2008
• EAN: 9783865215246
• ISBN: 978-3-86521-524-6
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 220 mm x 5 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Fotografie, Paris : Bildbände, Paris, Photographie, Fotograf, Photograph, Fünfziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts