Living Room Mabou
c. 2012
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 16.6 × 24.7 cm (6 9/16 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 20.2 × 25.2 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jane P. Watkins
Accession Number
2015.186.1.31
Art Historical Context
**Living Room Mabou**, a gelatin silver print by Robert Frank from around 2012, captures an intimate glimpse into the artist's personal world. Frank, the Swiss-born photographer for his groundbreaking 195 book *The Americans*which redefined documentary photography with raw, unflinching portraits of mid-century America—spent his later decades in the remote Nova Scotia community of Mabou. This modest-sized image (16.6 × 24.7 cm) depicts the familiar domestic space of his home there, reflecting a shift from his earlier nomadic road trips to quieter, more contemplative scenes of everyday life. Pr...
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...