Guggenheim 24--South Carolina
1955
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contact sheet
Dimensions
overall: 25.3 x 20.2 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
1990.28.2220
Art Historical Context
Robert Frank's *Guggenheim 24--South Carolina (1955) is a rare contact sheet from the Swiss-born photographer's transformative Guggenheim Fellowship road trip across the United States. Funded in 1955, this project captured the nation's diverse landscapes, people, and social undercurrents through over 76 rolls of film, culminating in Frank's groundbreaking photobook *The Americans*1958–59). This intimate sheet, measuring just 25.3 x 20.2 cm, offers a window into Frank's raw process in the segregated South, where everyday scenes revealed the stark realities of mid-century American life. As a co...
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...