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Klappentext Robert Frank's father! Henry! was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich! and a keen amateur photographer. Father - Photographer makes public for the first time a selection of Henry Frank's photographs including landscapes! family portraits! still-lifes and cityscapes. When Robert Frank immigrated to the United States in 1947! a wooden box containing his father's stereophotographs was one of the few objects he brought with him. In 2008 that box and the fragile photographic glass plates within it were hand-escorted to Steidl in Göttingen! where they were scanned in tri-tone in preparation for this book. Designed by Robert Frank! Father - Photographer reveals Henry Frank to be both a talented photographer and a keen traveller. His pictures include snow-capped Alps and lakes in Switzerland! views of Venice! Pisa and Florence! and depictions of his family and friends including the young Robert. Henry Frank also reveals a passion for modern means of transport in images of aeroplanes! ships! hot-air balloons! and a car fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. Father - Photographer is a revelation of the unknown photographer Henry Frank! a historical photographic document of the early twentieth century! as well as a new chapter in Robert Frank's ongoing bookmaking. Zusammenfassung Robert Frank's father! Henry! was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich! and a keen amateur photographer. Father - Photographer makes public for the first time a selection of Henry Frank's photographs including landscapes! family portraits! still-lifes and cityscapes. When Robert Frank immigrated to the United States in 1947! a wooden box containing his father's stereophotographs was one of the few objects he brought with him. In 2008 that box and the fragile photographic glass plates within it were hand-escorted to Steidl in Göttingen! where they were scanned in tri-tone in preparation for this book. Designed by Robert Frank! Father - Photographer reveals Henry Frank to be both a talented photographer and a keen traveller. His pictures include snow-capped Alps and lakes in Switzerland! views of Venice! Pisa and Florence! and depictions of his family and friends including the young Robert. Henry Frank also reveals a passion for modern means of transport in images of aeroplanes! ships! hot-air balloons! and a car fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. Father - Photographer is a revelation of the unknown photographer Henry Frank! a historical photographic document of the early twentieth century! as well as a new chapter in Robert Frank's ongoing bookmaking. ...
