Actor hammering weapon--Filming "Landammann Stauffacher"
1941
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15.2 x 14.3 cm (6 x 5 5/8 in.) sheet: 15.7 x 14.8 cm (6 3/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1994.37.377
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...