ROBERT FRANK: MARY'S BOOK

Frank's artist's book and love letter for his first wife exemplifies the poetic, virtuosic approach to photobooks that would come to define his storied career.  Called 'a poet with a camera', Robert Frank was one of many artists who searched for creative freedom in postwar Paris.  It was while he was living in the city in 1949 that Frank produced a seminal volume in his oeuvre:  a rare, personal photo book made for his then girlfriend, artist Mary Frank.  In Mary's Book, the photographer chronicled his time in the city with his poetic, insightful and inquisitive eye, and experimented for the first time with combining text and image.

136 pages