THANK YOU

First Edition, 1996 
Publisher: Scalo Verlag, Zürich, Berlin, New York, 1996
Language: English
Condition: Near Fine – Light shelf wear; a small crease is present on the upper right corner of the back cover. All pages are clean, intact, and the spine remains solid.

Thank You is one of Robert Frank’s most intimate works, conceived as a personal diary and visual poem. The book combines Polaroids, handwritten notes, fragments of memories, and photographs, offering an introspective journey into Frank’s world during the later stages of his career. Unlike The Americans, which captured the social landscape of an entire nation, Thank You reveals Frank’s private, emotional terrain, reflecting on themes of love, loss, time, and gratitude.

Robert Frank (1924–2019) is widely regarded as one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His groundbreaking book The Americans (1958) forever changed the language of documentary photography, introducing a raw, poetic, and highly subjective style that influenced generations of photographers and artists. With Thank You, Frank shifts from the public to the personal, reaffirming his role not only as a photographer but also as an artist and storyteller who blurred the boundaries between autobiography, photography, and visual poetry. The work stands as a testament to his ability to reinvent the photographic book form and to redefine how images and words interact.