Gallup, New Mexico
1955
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 28.9 x 19.3 cm (11 3/8 x 7 5/8 in.) sheet: 29.8 x 24 cm (11 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Robert B. Menschel Fund
Accession Number
1995.65.2
Art Historical Context
**Gallup, New, 1955** Frank's *Gallup, New Mexico is a poignant gelatin silver print from his groundbreaking 1955– road trip across the United States, funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship. This Swiss-born photographer captured the nation's diverse landscapes and people with unflinching honesty, producing images that would form his influential book *The Americans* (1959). Shot in the American Southwest, photograph reflects mid-20-century roadside culture along Route 66, a of post-World War II mobility and the pursuit of the American Dream. Frank's mastery of the gelatin silver process—using si...
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...