Pangnirtung (9783869301983)

Pangnirtung

Robert Frank

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Steidl

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Hardcover
42 pages
235 × 310 × 10 mm
ISBN 9783869301983
English

In August 1992 Robert Frank's good friend Reginald Rankin invited Frank on a trip to Pangnirtung, a village of around 1,300 Inuit inhabitants in the Arctic Circle. This book is Frank's documentation of the five-day sojourn. Curiously Frank depicts Pangnirtung void of its people: the still harbour, public housing, a convenience store, a telephone post. Sincere without being sentimental, the photos are shaped by a short text from Frank himself, "Prefabricated homes along the main road in Pangnirtung. At times a decorated window - reflections inside or outside. Stones - maybe the balance of a big sky above…"

Publisher

Steidl

Information

Hardcover
42 pages
235 × 310 × 10 mm
ISBN 9783869301983
English