00:00The success of the now legendary The Americans, published in 1959, Robert unexpectedly parted ways with photography.
00:12He subsequently created an extensive body of films that moved between fiction and documentary
00:20and which sought no commercial success and they had no success at all.
00:28One can't probably think about the photos and films of Robert Frank without considering the medium
00:35which has fundamentally dynamited his career right from the beginning, the photobook,
00:41in which he creates picture sequences, rhythms, harmonies and discords at their most intense.
00:53In this exhibition, here at Taipei, Frank's photobooks are being shown in the context of his photos.
01:03But where did we get the actual photo prints from?
01:08Collectors today are understandably reluctant to lend their vintage prints to travelling exhibitions.
01:18The prints are too valuable and delicate to be sent around the globe and the insurance costs are enormously.
01:27And even if all this wasn't the case, Robert Frank himself never had any interest in seeing his photo exhibited in expensive frames in any kind of retrospective exhibition.
01:42He was against it.
01:43So instead, we at Steil have simply printed the photos with acrylic inks on three to five meter long strips of paper,
01:53which we have then hung just from the ceiling or stuck or nailed onto walls.
02:00More on how this became later, I will explain it.
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