Robert Frank Books

This book fills a long overdue gap by providing a comprehensive overview of Robert Frank's more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 60s, many of them virtually unknown and barely seen. Frank Films offers a visually unique approach to the work: at Frank's request, only new stills taken from the original films and videos were used as illustrations. A number of in-depth essays discuss the history and aesthetics of Frank's moving pictures, while shorter texts by various authors examine each film and video individually. One of the greatest and most restless artists working today, Frank has always worked in a place untouched by fashions and schools, his art literally growing out of and for itself. Frank Films is required reading for everyone interested in Robert Frank and the history of American avant-garde film.

Frank explores the lives and lifestyles of a new breed of millionaires and billionaires - many of them self-made and from blue-collar backgrounds - and how this new gilded age is affecting wider society.

When Robert Frank immigrated to New York from Zurich in 1947, the aspiring young photographer brought along hisportfolio of 40 photos to help him secure employment. Portfolio is the facsimile version of this fascinating object.Containing Frank¿s earliest original photographs as well as the work of other photographers which he had retouched,the portfolio presents images of rural life in Switzerland and alpine landscapes, alongside cityscapes and still lifes.Portfolio contains the seeds of a career of such scope and influence even the ambitious 23-year-old Robert Frankcould not have anticipated. Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1924 and went to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book The Americans (1958), which gave rise to a distinct new art form in the photo-book, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy (1959) both reproduced by Steidl within The Robert Frank Project. This is an ambitious long term publishing programme which encompasses Robert Frank¿s complete oeuvre ¿ reprints of his classic books, reprints of some less well known small books, the publication of previously unseen projects, newlyconceived bookworks, and his Complete Film Works in specially designed collector¿s DVD sets.

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Face your demons... or feed them. The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war--and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha general, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren't meant to stay buried--and some wounds aren't meant to heal.

Que furent les relations internationales depuis 1941, moment où les puissances extra-européennes (Etats-Unis, Japon, URSS) changèrent le sens du second conflit mondial, jusqu'au moment où, après maintes crises, maintes guerres locales, les deux " géants " purent croire qu'ils avaient encore la capacité d'assurer un certain équilibre entre diverses forces contradictoires ? Après la guerre froide " chaude " (1947-1955), après le dégel, avec la coexistence pacifique, les États-Unis et l'URSS pourront-ils savourer leur triomphe au milieu des années 1960 ? Divisée par la guerre, mais refaite par la croissance économique, l'Europe relèvera-t-elle la tête ? Où en sont alors les nationalismes ? Ce livre propose une approche globale des relations internationales.

From the writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and has been called “incandescent” by Stephen King, “absolutely mesmerizing” by Gillian Flynn, and “unputdownable” (People) comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life—he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family’s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden—and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we’re capable of, when we no longer know who we are.