Album Peru Roberta Frank to bardzo wazna pozycja w tworczosci artysty i w historii Fotografii. Pierwsze kompletne dzielo wybitnego szwajcarskiego fotografa jest bardzo poetyckie a wrecz romantyczne w swojej formie.
In March 1949, Robert Frank mailed
a birthday gift to his mother in Switzerland: A maquette of a series of
photographs he had made during a visit to Peru between June and
December of the previous year. Frank assembled an identical book for
himself, and these two maquettes now reside in the collections of The
Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art,
Washington. A few of the images are well known in Frank's oeuvre, but
until now very few people have seen the entire series--which, in 1949,
already displayed the hallmark of Frank's distinctive image-sequencing.
Peru also exhibits an ease and flexibility that Frank himself
confirms: "I was very free with the camera. I didn't think of what
would be the correct thing to do; I did what I felt good doing. I was
like an action painter." Using a hand-held 35mm Leica camera, Frank
documented the country's massive vistas, weathered faces, manual labor
and dusty roads stretching to the horizon with a spontaneity of motion
that propels the viewer into the midst of the scenery. For the first
time, and under the direction of Frank himself, this book presents the
complete sequence of images. Peru is a work of major
significance in both the artist's history and the history of
photography. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art,
Washington.
