Longchamp
Robert Frank
1949
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 35 x 23 cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/16 in.) sheet: 39.7 x 30.1 cm (15 5/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jane P. Watkins
Accession Number
2000.173.3
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...