Filming, CBS TV studio--Burbank, California
c. 1955/1956
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 25.2 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
1990.28.646
Art Historical Context
In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank traversed on a Guggenheim Fellowship, capturing the nation's pulse in raw, unvarnished images that would culminate in his groundbreaking 9 book *The Americans *Filming, CBS TV—Burbank, California* (c. 1955/1956) offers a glimpse into the electrifying world of early television production at the CBS studio in Burbank This gelatin silver print, measuring just under 10 by 8 inches, freezes a moment of frenetic activitycameras rolling, lights glaring—revealing the manufactured glamour of mass media amid postwar America's booming consumer cultur...
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...