Buildings--Omaha, Nebraska
1956
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 25.3 x 20.3 cm (9 15/16 x 8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1990.28.1058
Art Historical Context
In 1956,-born photographer Robert Frank captured *Buildings—Omaha, Nebraska* during his transformative cross-country trip across the United States, funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship. This silver print is one of the images that would later form his groundbreaking photobook *The Americans* (1959), a seminal work that offered a raw, unflin portrait of mid-20th-century America. Frank's journey, spanning 1955–1956, took him through small towns and cities, revealing the mundane beauty and underlying tensions of everyday life amid post-World War II prosperity. Printed on a modest 25.3 x 20.3 cm shee...
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...