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War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority. Love, Paris, and Flowersbut London was black, white, and gray, the elegance, the style, all present in front of always changing fog. Then I met a man from Wales talking about the Miners and I had read How Green Was My Valley. This became my only try to make a Story. Robert Frank London/Wales brings together two distinct bodies of work to reveal a new understanding of Franks contribution to the history of photography. Juxtaposing the world of money and the world of work in post-war England, Frank photographed London bankers, workers, and children, and Welsh coal miners and their families. These images poetically evoke relationships between the classes during a time of change in Britain. Setting a significant documentary precedent for Franks best known work, The Americans, London/Wales demonstrates the artists early interest in social commentary, the narrative potential of photographic sequencing and his innovative use of the expressionistic qualities of the medium. Featuring 90 black and white photographs, London/Wales tells a timeless story of cities, people, and institutions in transition through emotional, evocative images while revealing Franks struggle to forge a new form of poetic narrative photography. This reprint of the 2003 Scalo edition will not include the text booklet.
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Format:Hardcover
With this work Frank has captured the famous British class system in action and on the streets of London and Wales when, just following the end of the second world war, people thought that that might all be behind them. He does it in photographs that really do make just one tell more than a thousand words providing a volume of thing to say and be said about England/Wales at that time. It is a truly remarkable book and should be seen along side that of England/Scotland 1960 by Bruce Davidson who followed on a few years later with a similar theme.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A superbly presented and enthralling compilation
10 Aug 2003
Format:Hardcover
The collaborative effort of Scalo in collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.), London/Wales is a photography collection 72 early 1950's tritone images taken by the famous and "museum-worthy" photographer Robert Frank. An informed and informative text is minimally present in this collection, which is primarily dedicated to showcasing the powerful still images of urban life and the people who lived in 1950s London, England and Careau, Wales. A superbly presented and enthralling compilation, London/Wales memorably illustrates the very essence of London and Wales and is a strongly recommended addition to professional, academic, and community library History of Photography collections.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Setting the Stage for "The Americans"
29 July 2003
Format:Hardcover
Robert Frank's previously unpublished photographs of London and Wales from the early 1950s are a revelation. With insightful text from curator Philip Brookman, this book is a must-buy for casual fans and scholars alike. Having recently seen the exhibition of this work at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, I must say viewing the photographs first hand was a wonderful experience. Yes, the prints are often too gray and dark, the negatives poorly exposed, and some images slightly out of focus, but through this work we can see an evolving photographic style that reached perfection a few years later in the seminal book, "The Americans." And witnessing that transformation is what made the exhibit, and this book, so memorable and priceless.
2 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Robert Frank: London/Wales
12 Sep 2005
Format:Hardcover
It's a nice book. Not quite like seeing them in person, but hey, what can you do.
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