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ROBERT FRANK The Lines of My Hand

After The Americans, The Lines of My Hand is arguably Robert Frank’s most important book. It is, without doubt, the publication that established his autobiographical, sometimes confessional, approach to bookmaking.

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ROBERT FRANK The Lines of My Hand

After The Americans, The Lines of My Hand is arguably Robert Frank’s most important book. It is, without doubt, the publication that established his autobiographical, sometimes confessional, approach to bookmaking.

The book was originally published by Yugensha in Tokyo in 1972, and this new Steidl edition, made in close collaboration with Robert Frank, is an update of the first US edition by Lustrum Press of 1972.

The Lines of My Hand has a chronological and has a selection from every stage of Frank’s work until 1972. From early photos in Switzerland in 1945–46 to images of his travels in Peru, Paris, Valencia, London, and Wales. As well as contact sheets from his 1955–56 journey through the US that resulted in The Americans and made him famous. Here too are intimate photos of Frank’s young family, alongside later photo-collages. There are also stills from films including Pull My Daisy (1959) and About Me: A Musical (1971). This structure itself mirrors the rhythm of Frank’s life. But, it is his short personal texts, like diary entries, that fully bring his voice into the book.

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It has a combination of text and image, fearless self-reflection, and an insistence on photography and film as equal though different aspects of the artist’s visual language. ROBERT FRANK The Lines of My Hand has become an inspiration for many photographers—not least Robert Frank himself, who continues and expands this approach in the visual diaries he makes today.

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