Publisher/Aspesi

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This photobook is a collaboration between Robert Frank and the Italian fashion brand Aspesi. Frank vividly depicted post-war American society with his landmark photographic work "The Americans," and continued to expand the possibilities of photography through diverse forms of expression such as film, Polaroid, and collage. This book contains photographic projects created for Aspesi in 1989 and 1995-96, as well as collage works presented in Zurich in 1997. The 1989 series features free-flowing Polaroid photography on the streets of New York, while the 1995-96 works feature the landscapes and inhabitants of Mabou, Nova Scotia, Canada, where Frank lived for many years. There is none of the staging or consumer imagery often seen in fashion photography; clothing exists quietly as part of the everyday scenery. Furthermore, the collage works, which combine photographs, film frames, and handwritten text, offer glimpses of the memories and traces of time that Frank confronted in his later years. Going beyond the realm of a typical brand book, this is a highly acclaimed artist's book that encapsulates the intimate and personal world of Robert Frank's later period.