About The Book
After The Americans, The Lines of My Hand is arguably Robert Frank’s most important book, and without doubt the publication that established his autobiographical, sometimes confessional approach to bookmaking. The Lines of My Hand is structured chronologically and presents selections from every stage of Frank’s work until 1972 — from early photos in Switzerland in 1945–46, to images of his travels in Peru, Paris, Valencia, London and Wales, and contact sheets from his 1955–56 journey through the US that resulted in The Americans.
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About The Artist
Robert Frank (1924–2019) is an acknowledged master of photography and the photobook. Born in Zurich, he immigrated to the United States in 1947. Frank is best known for his seminal book The Americans, first published in English in 1959, which gave rise to a distinctly new form of the photobook, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy of 1959. Frank’s other important projects include the books Black White and Things (1954), Lines of My Hand (1972), the film Cocksucker Blues for the Rolling Stones (1972), and his visual diaries (2010–17).
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Specifics
Robert Frank: The lines of my hand (Lustrum Press, 1972 // New edition by Steidl, 2017).
Source: https://archive.org/details/linesofmyhand00fran.
The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. It offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account. Books on Internet Archive are offered in many formats, including DAISY files intended for print disabled people. The list of my favorite photobooks on the Internet Archive you find here.
