Guggenheim 2--Savannah, Georgia
1955
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contact sheet
Dimensions
overall: 25.3 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 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
1990.28.2204
Art Historical Context
Robert Frank's *Guggenheim 2--Savannah, Georgia (1955) offers a rare glimpse into the raw creative process of one of the 20th century's most influential photographers. Created during Frank's Guggenheim Fellowship-funded road trip across the United, this contact sheet captures multiple exposures from his stop in Savannah, Georgia., a Swiss-born artist who became a key figure in American street photography, used these travels to document the nation's diverse social landscape in the post-World War II era, culminating in his groundbreaking photobook *The Americans*1958–59). As a contact sheet—a d...
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...