
Pangnirtung
- Publisher
- Steidl
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN
- 978-3-86930-198-3
- Specifications
- 23 x 30.5 cm
40 pages
27 images
Hardback / Clothbound
English
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…"