Lot 1683 - A191 Photography - Monday, 02. December 2019, 03.30 PM
ROBERT FRANK
(1924)
Flower is… With one mounted offset print and 81 black and white reproductions of photographs by Robert Frank.
Tokyo, Yugensha, 1987. Book 34 x 25 cm; Print 14 x 21 cm. Not paginated (112 p.). Grey original silk binding with blind stamped spine and cover titles in original slipcase mounted with original photograph on the cover, with original shipping box, together in private linen box with mounted back plate.
Literature:
- Robert Frank. Story Lines. Exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, 28.10.2004-23.1.2005, et al. Göttingen, 2004 (ill. n.p.).
- Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. The Photobook I. New York, 2004, p. 264 (with ill.).
Provenance:
- Christie's, Auction 2110, 10 April 2008, Lot 188.
- Swiss private collection.
One of 250 copies with 1 mounted offset print of the version "Fleurs", Champs Elysées, 1950, mounted on the slipcase, entire edition of 500 copies for the Japanese market, which was never published outside of Japan. First edition of the first print. With a preface by Robert Frank, Design by Kohei Sugiura and Atsushi Sato.
"Flower Is can serve as an eminently fitting apotheosis for stream-of-consciousness photography. It is one of Frank's great books (which means it is one of the greatest of photobooks) demonstrating magisterially, as he himself says in the book's introduction, 'my hopes and my sadness with photography'."
(Parr/B.)
- Robert Frank. Story Lines. Exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, 28.10.2004-23.1.2005, et al. Göttingen, 2004 (ill. n.p.).
- Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. The Photobook I. New York, 2004, p. 264 (with ill.).
Provenance:
- Christie's, Auction 2110, 10 April 2008, Lot 188.
- Swiss private collection.
One of 250 copies with 1 mounted offset print of the version "Fleurs", Champs Elysées, 1950, mounted on the slipcase, entire edition of 500 copies for the Japanese market, which was never published outside of Japan. First edition of the first print. With a preface by Robert Frank, Design by Kohei Sugiura and Atsushi Sato.
"Flower Is can serve as an eminently fitting apotheosis for stream-of-consciousness photography. It is one of Frank's great books (which means it is one of the greatest of photobooks) demonstrating magisterially, as he himself says in the book's introduction, 'my hopes and my sadness with photography'."
(Parr/B.)
CHF 1 000 / 1 500 | (€ 1 030 / 1 550)
Sold for CHF 2 250 (including buyer’s premium)
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