Just before noon Lena Kansler delivers orders to the building at the west corner of the block. Her husband Benny runs the luncheonette.
Robert Frank
1951
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 34.4 x 23.1 cm (13 9/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1990.28.12
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...