Robert Frank Mary's Book

$55.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Called "a poet with a camera" by Edward Steichen, Robert Frank (1924–2019) was one of many artists who searched for creative freedom in postwar Paris. It was while he was living in the city in 1949 that Frank produced a seminal volume in his oeuvre: a rare, personal photobook made for his then-girlfriend, artist Mary Frank (née Lockspeiser). In Mary’s Book , the photographer chronicled his time in the city with his poetic, insightful and inquisitive eye, and experimented for the first time with combining text…