FRANK, Robert - Henry Frank. Father - Photographer

Background information, content

"Henry FRANK (1890–1976), father of the renowned Swiss-US-American photographer Robet FRANK was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. A couple of years ago, Gerhard Steidl found at a studio of Robert FRANK wooden boxes con-taining the complete archive of his father’s stereophotographs. In 2008 that box and the fragile photographic glass plates within it were brought to Steidl in Göttingen, where they were scanned in tritone in preparation for this book. 'Father - Photographer' is a reve-lation 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.

Content

The photo volume 'Father - Photographer' makes public for the first time a selection of the photographs by Henry FRANK including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes. Designed by Robert FRANK the book 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 FRANK.
He 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." (slightly adapted publishers text, © Steidl Verlag, 2009)

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

Photo books by as well as with works by Robert FRANK