FRANK, Robert - Good Days Quiet

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"In the photo volume 'Good Days Qiuet' by Robert FRANK, he both acknowledges and moves beyond his acclaimed visual diaries (2010–2017), which juxtapose iconic photos from throughout his career with the more personal pictures he makes today and suggestive, often autobiographical text fragments. The photographer's focus is life inside and outside his beloved weather-beaten wooden house in Mabou, where he has spent summers for decades with his wife June Leaf.  Among portraits of Leaf, Allen Ginsberg and FRANK’s son, are images of the house’s simple interior with its wood-fuelled iron stove, humble furniture and bare light bulbs, as well as views of the land and sea by the house: snow-covered, windswept, stormy or lit by the dying sun.
The Polaroids scanned for the book show various deliberate states of deterioration and manipulation at his hands, including texts that move from the merely descriptive ('watching the crows') to the emotive ('memories,' 'grey sea―old house / can you hear the music'). As always in his books, his message lies primarily in the photos’ lyrical sequence, an influential approach to the photobook pioneered by and today well at home in his 93-year-old hands." (© Steidl Verlag, 2019)

About Swiss-American photographer, Robert FRANK (1924-2019)

Photo books by as well as with works by Robert FRANK