40 Fotos
Robert Frank
1946
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unbound volume of 40 gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
overall: 23 x 17.15 cm (9 1/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Accession Number
2010.114.1.1-40
About the Artist
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (1924-2019) was a Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker whose revolutionary approach to documentary photography fundamentally transformed the medium and influenced generations of artists. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, on November 9, 1924, to a middle-class Jewish family, Frank began his photographic apprenticeship in 1941, working with commercial photographers before im...