Avenue du Maine, Paris
1949-1950
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 34 x 22.5 cm (13 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 35.7 x 27.8 cm (14 1/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ricard R. Ohrstrom and the Mars Foundation
Accession Number
1993.28.1
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...