Guggenheim 464--"Helen of Troy" permiere, Hollywood
January 1956
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contact sheet
Dimensions
overall: 25.3 x 20.5 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1990.28.2495
Art Historical Context
Step into the glitzy world of 1950s Hollywood through *Guggenheim 464—"Helen of Troy" premiere, Hollywood*, a captivating contact sheet by Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, created in January 1956 This intimate 25.3 x 20.5 cm gelatin silver print captures the electric atmosphere of the epic film's premiere, with crowds, stars, and searchlights piercing the night. Housed in the National Gallery Art's Robert Frank Collection it offers a rare glimpse into Frank's raw documentation of American culture. Frank produced this during his groundbreaking Guggenheim Fellowship project (1955–1956), wh...
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...