The publication of Parismarks the first time that the significant body of photographs whichRobert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been broughttogether in a single book. Having left Switzerland in 1924, this 1951trip to France was only Frank's second return to Europe after he hadsettled in New York City in 1947, and some of the images he made duringthat visit have become iconic in the history of the medium. The 80photographs reproduced here, which were selected by Frank and editorUte Eskildsen, suggest that Frank's experience of the "new world" hadsharpened his eye for European urbanism. He saw the city's streets as astage for human activity and focused particularly on the flowersellers. His work clearly references Atget and invokes the tradition ofthe flaneur.