Climbing with Pieter Dirk van der Poel, Canton of Valais--40 Fotos
1944
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.7 x 17.5 cm (7 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.) sheet: 24.6 x 17.8 cm (9 11/16 x 7 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1994.37.75
Art Historical Context
In 1944, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank captured *Climbing with Pieter Dirk der Poel, Canton Valais--40 Fotos a gelatin silver print from a personal adventure in the rugged Swiss Alps. This intimate image, part of a series of 40 photographs documenting a climbing expedition with friend Pieter Dirk van der Po, reflects Frank's early fascination with candid, everyday moments amid dramatic natural landscapes. At just 20 years old, Frank was honing his skills in Switzerland before emigrating to the United States in 7, where he would later revolutionize photography with his seminal book *The ...
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...