ROBERT FRANK | ROBERT FRANK: THE AMERICANS, 81 CONTACT SHEETS

ROBERT FRANK

1924-2019

ROBERT FRANK: THE AMERICANS, 81 CONTACT SHEETS

(Tokyo: Yugensha, 2009, a total edition of 300), a portfolio of 81 four-color plates, wrapped with the original gray paper obi/band and handmade Japanese paper, 1955-57, printed in 2009; together with a 24-page pamphlet with text in Japanese and English by Robert Frank and Shino Kuraishi. Atlas folio, debossed silver paper-covered trifold, the whole contained within the original paulownia wood box, Frank's facsimile signature debossed on the lid, no. 114 from the deluxe edition of 220

box: 24½ by 20¾ by 2 in. (62.2 by 52.7 by 5.1 cm.)

sheet: 20⅜ by 16½ in. (51.6 by 41.9 cm.)

pamphlet: 16½ by 10⅛ in. (41.9 by 25.7 cm.)