Originally released in 2009, Seven Stories was the first publication of Robert Frank’s Polaroids. Quickly sold-out, it has been a collector’s rarity ever since. This 2024 edition makes the book available again, to a whole new audience. In his later years Frank worked almost exclusively with Polaroids, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph. Seven Stories brings together sequences of single images which he compiled to create books of new work. As always the photographs and stories relate to Frank’s life and milieu—his homes in Mabou and New York, perhaps a trip to China or Spain, his friends, still lifes. Seven Stories is an important precursor to Frank’s visual diaries (2010–17), also published by Steidl this season.
