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Pangnirtung.
Photographs by Robert Frank.
Steidl,
2011.
40 pp., 27 black & white illustrations, 9x12".
Publisher's Description
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…”
Read Ellen Rennard's review of Pangnirtung in photo-eye Magazine.
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