Böcker utgivna av Steidl Publishers

Robert Frank's father, Henry, was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. This work features a selection of Henry Frank's photographs including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes.

Writing from New York in March 1949, Robert Frank sent home to his mother in Switzerland a birthday gift of a book maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru. This book presents the complete sequence of images, based on the original book Frank had conceived and realised under his direction.

Chuck Close immediately liked the idea of a book without words. As a child, his severe dyslexia stood in the way of reading, making images all the more important. This book is a self-portrait that emerges out of the printing process, one plate and one color at a time.

The snapshot is a part of our visual culture, many photographs have been taken millions of times, with just slight variations, as the identity of the people in a family portrait. This title includes such snaps, images imbued with a sense of ease and freedom.