A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film Thunderball.<ul><li>Robert E. McGinnis (American, 1926-2025).</li><li>Frank McCarthy (American, 1924-2002).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Heavy cardstock poster.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The US Window Card film poster for the James Bond classic&nbsp;Thunderball. Featuring the 'Look Up! Look Down! Look Out!' Robert McGinnis &amp; Frank McCarthy artwork. Thunderball, the much-loved fourth film in the James Bond series, and often referred to as "The underwater one" sees Sean Connery, as 007 heading to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.

James Bond Thunderball Window Card Movie Poster

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.<ul><li>Robert E. McGinnis (American, b.1926).</li><li>Frank McCarthy (American, 1924-2002).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul>

James Bond On Her Majesty's Secret Service Movie Poster

The country-of-origin Advance UK Quad <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the fourth <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film Thunderball.<ul><li>Frank McCarthy (American).</li><li>Robert McGinnis (American).</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Fantastic artwork of Sean Connery by Robert McGinnis &amp; Frank McCarthy.

British James Bond Thunderball Movie Poster

Movie poster for the release of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> Thunderball, starring Sean Connery, 1965.<ul><li>Robert E. McGinnis (American, b. 1926).</li><li>Frank McCarthy (American, 1924–2002).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Linen backed and unframed.</li></ul>

James Bond Thunderball Movie Poster

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert%20Frank&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Frank</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Art%2520and%2520Design" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">photobook</a> The Americans.<ul><li>Robert Frank (American).</li><li>New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959.</li><li>170 pages.</li><li>First American edition.</li><li>83 black and white photographs printed in gravure.</li><li>Plain endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in gold, white photo-illustrated dust-jacket printed in black, black and red collage by Alfred Leslie on the lower panel.</li></ul> The first American edition of Frank's masterpiece, after Robert Delpire's Les Américains, was published in France the previous year. The Americans follows a careful and complex sequence, with four chapters, each introduced by a photograph of the American flag. In his successful application for the Guggenheim grant that allowed him to make this work Frank wrote: 'The project I have in mind is one that will shape itself as it proceeds... The material is there; the practice will be in the photographer's hand, the vision in his mind!' Between April 1955 and June 1956 he set out on a series of trips across America. His aim was to complete a body of work that would be 'a broad, voluminous picture record of things American, past and present... A visual study of a civilisation.' For this, the defining edition, Frank stripped the texts which appeared opposite the photographs in Delpire's edition and added an introduction by Jack Kerouac, who writes, 'What a poem this is, what poems can be written about this book of pictures some day by young new writers.... Whether 'tis the milk of humankind-ness, or human-kindness, Shakespeare meant, makes no difference when you look at these pictures. Better than a show... Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world!' Like Vladimir Nabakov, Frank saw 1950s America as no American could have seen it, 'the loneliness, alienation, rootlessness, and sadness of automobile-happy mid-century America.' David Levi Strauss referred to the French edition as sociology, whereas the American edition is poetry. And as Kerouac writes 'Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see?' With this book, Frank galvaniZed photography for his generation and has influenced, in some way, every other generation since.

The Americans | First American Edition

A group of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Association%2520items" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">association copies</a> of the work of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert%20Frank&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Frank</a>, including <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first editions</a> and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> books.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>Robert Frank (Swiss-American).</li><li>Les Américains [with] New York Is; [and] The Americans; [and] London / Wales.</li><li>Paris: New York; New York; Zurich, 1958; [1959]; 1969; 2003.</li></ul> Includes the following: <ul><li>Les Américains. Photographies de Robert Frank.</li><li>Paris: Encyclopédie Essentielle, Robert Delpire Éditeur, 1958.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>Inscribed in black ink on half-title.</li><li>Oblong octavo.</li><li>172 pages.</li><li>Black and white photographs printed in gravure by Draeger Frères, Montrouge.</li><li>Texts by various authors selected by Alain Bosquet.</li><li>Occasional minor spotting.</li><li>Plain thick endpapers, sewn headband, laminated white paper-covered boards illustrated with an illustration by Saul Steinberg printed in light blue, black, and red, lightly toned, light creasing to upper joint.</li><li>Motomura Kazuhiko’s card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side.</li></ul> <ul><li>New York Is.</li><li>Introduction by Gilbert Millstein.</li><li>[New York], [New York Times Company], [1959].</li><li>First edition.</li><li>Signed in black ink on verso of front free endpaper.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>56 pages.</li><li>Black and white photographs.</li><li>Light toning to edges.</li><li>Black front and red rear endpapers, printed paper-covered boards, white, titles in black, light toning to edges, light wear to head and foot of spine, top corner bumped, without the laid in letter from the advertising director.</li><li>Motomura Kazuhiko’s card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side.</li></ul> <ul><li>The Americans. Photographs by Robert Frank. </li><li>Introduction by Jack Kerouac.</li><li>Afterword by Robert Frank with details of the four films he made 1959- 68.</li><li>New York: An Aperture Book, Grossman Publishers, 1969.</li><li>Oblong octavo.</li><li>182 pages.</li><li>Second edition, revised and enlarged.</li><li>Inscribed in black ink.</li><li>Black and white photographs printed in ‘stonetone’ offset by Rapoport Printing Corp., New York.</li><li>Occasional light spotting, light marking to edges, printer’s ink mark to one page.</li><li>Plain endpapers, light spotting, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in gold, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black, minor toning, lightly marked.</li><li>Motomura Kazuhiko’s card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side.</li></ul> <ul><li>London / Wales. </li><li>Zurich, Berlin, New York: Scalo, 2003.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>126 pages.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>Inscribed in black ink on half-title.</li><li>Black and white photographs printed in offset.</li><li>Plain endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in grey, photo- illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black.</li><li>Minor shelfwear.</li><li>Motomura Kazuhiko’s card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side.</li><li>Photocopy of list exhibited works shown at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington laid in.</li></ul> Motomura Kazuhiko was a civil servant who grew up watching Akira Kurosawa films, which led to his interest in visual art and black-and-white photography. He was an important collector of photographs and photography books and a tireless champion of Japanese photographers, promoting their work and supporting their books and exhibitions. He published four books over a 37-year period: Robert Frank’s The Lines of My Hand (1972), Flower Is (1987), and The Americans: 81 Contact Sheets (2009); Jun Morinaga’s River, its shadow of shadows (1978); and helped organize or distribute others, including Mochizuki Masao’s Television (2001) and Suzuki Kiyoshi’s Tenmaku No Machi [A Town of Tents]: Mind Games (1982). In 1960, Motomura worked as a tax officer. While still employed, he enrolled in the Shashin Sōgō Senmon Gakkō (now Tokyo College of Photography), where he was taught by Ishimoto Yasuhiro and Shigemori Koen. After participating in the demonstrations against the 1960 renewal of the US Japanese security treaty, Motomura resigned from his position, fearing that his employers might penalize him. While studying photography, Motomura was introduced to Robert Frank’s work when he saw the portfolio of thirty-eight photographs in US Camera Annual 1958 (of which twenty-three would appear in The Americans). Ishimoto Yasuhiro recommended that he buy Les Américains instead of The Americans because he thought the printing was better. Motomura met and befriended Morinaga Jun at the Tokyo College of Photography. Morinaga assisted W. Eugene Smith on a commission for Hitachi that would become Japan: Chapter of Image (1963). Through Morinaga, Motomura met W. Eugene Smith, who introduced him to Robert Frank as a favor in return for Motomura helping Smith to organise a retrospective exhibition in Tokyo. In October 1970, Motomura and his classmate Hataya Norio travelled to New York to meet Robert Frank. During this trip, Motomura also visited W. Eugene Smith and his fiancé Aileen, and they discussed the idea of travelling to Minamata in Southern Japan to photograph the devastating effects of mercury poisoning on the local populace. In 1971, Smith and Aileen moved to Minamata, where they spent three years photographing and researching the devastating effects of mercury poisoning on the local populace. While working on the Minamata project, Smith’s initial living costs in Japan were covered by Motomura Kazuhiko. When Motomura first met with Frank, Aileen acted as an interpreter. Frank recounts this first meeting in the preface to The Lines of My Hand, in which he writes of how he was visited by two Japanese editors and inspired by their respect for his art and their eagerness to publish his book in Japan, a project he describes as reviving his interest in photography at a time when he had abandoned it for filmmaking: ‘Well, one evening early late or middle last November, two Japanese gentlemen rang my bell on the Bowery. Mr. Kazuhiko Motomura and Mr. Toshio [Norio] Hataya did not speak any English or where [sic] too shy to try. They brought a girl who translated... I remember the evening very well. They said that they had always liked my photographs. They came to New York to ask my permission to have a book published of my work. Something like that had never happened to me. I was impressed and happy. They also gave me a small excellent taperecorder [sic] on which part of our conversation was recorded. Then they apologized that they hadn’t given me a brand new one. When the two gentlemen left I said to June, I’m really going to work on that and try to make it good. It was the right time for me, I was just finishing my last film “About me... A Musical”. I had gone to Nova Scotia in the summer and bought a place in order to get away from it all and to see the clear ocean and to be more alone. So once more, I go back to look at all these exposed memories, all these buildings, skies and people – lost and saved up...’

Les Américains [with] New York Is [and] The Americans [and] London / Wales First Editions

This first edition copy of Flower Is contains three bodies of work: photographs taken in Paris of flowers, flower sellers and chance encounters on the street, the River Rouge car factory in Detroit, and Polaroids made in Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia.&nbsp;<ul><li>Robert Frank (Swiss-American).</li><li>Design by Sugiura Kohei and Sato Atsushi.</li><li>Tokyo: Yugensha / Kazuhiko Motomura, 1987.</li><li>112 pages.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Includes black-and-white photographs printed in offset.</li><li>Bound in grey silk-covered boards, titles stamped in dark grey on spine and upper side, publisher's grey paper-covered board slipcase with titles stamped in dark grey on spine.</li><li>Accompanied by original shipping carton.</li></ul> Flower Is is the second of three books Frank made with Motomura Kazuhiko, a collector of photographs and photography books and occasional publisher, each designed by Sugiura Kohei. "By 1949 I had lived in New York City for two years. When I returned to Paris, I was 26. The beauty of that city touched me... Returning to America I began to look at Americans... and began to photograph the city and factory which produced the American car. The summer of 1955 was hot and after two days at the River Rouge Plant in Detroit I was told to leave the factory. I travelled south and was astonished to see black people treated as inferiors. I experienced the suspicion against anything not 'American'. I was learning about American determination to win... Flowers of Paris is memory... After the publication of The Americans in 1959, a slow fade begins. Filmmaking replaces the single frame photograph!"

Flower Is

Movie poster for the 1967 release of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a>'s You Only Live Twice, starring Sean Connery.<ul><li>Frank McCarthy (American, 1924–2002).</li><li>Robert E. McGinnis (American, b. 1926).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Style C poster used for drive-ins and special displays, printed on heavier paper stock.</li><li>Linen backed and unframed.</li></ul>

James Bond You Only Live Twice Movie Poster

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