Books by Robert Frank

With questions, explanations and exercises, the authors help students relate economic principles to a host of everyday experiences such as going to the ATM or purchasing airline tickets. It presents a coherent short list of core principles in introductory economics and reinforces them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts.

Part of a series, this title is composed of polaroids, that continues the journey into Frank's realm and imagery, showing us snapshots from his travels, of his friends and everyday curiosities.

Robert Frank's film "One Hour" is a single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O'Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattan's Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July, 1990 the film presents the curious experience of eavesdropping involuntarily on strangers. This book deals with the film.

"Pull My Daisy" is a 1959 short film that typifies the "Beat Generation". Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished titled "Beat Generation". This book interweaves a transcript of Kerouacs narration from the film with film stills.

Writing from New York in March 1949, Robert Frank sent home to his mother in Switzerland a birthday gift of a book maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru. This book presents the complete sequence of images, based on the original book Frank had conceived and realised under his direction.

Imagine a country populated with nothig but millionaires. Let's call it Richistan . . .