Family--Wellfleet 4
Summer 1962
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contact sheet
Dimensions
overall: 25.1 x 20.1 cm (9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1990.28.3306
Art Historical Context
**Family—Wellfleet 4**, captured by Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank in summer of 1962, offers an intimate glimpse into everyday life. This contact sheet, measuring 25.1 x 20.1 cm, preserves a grid of proof images from a roll of film, showcasing Frank's raw, unpolished approach to photography. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Robert Frank Collection—generously gifted by the artist himself—it falls within the museum's Department of Photographs (CPH), highlighting Frank's enduring legacy. Frank rose to prominence with his groundbreaking 1958 book *The Americans*, a seminal work that ...
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...