Mabou Home
c. 2012
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.1 × 14.9 cm (8 11/16 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jane P. Watkins
Accession Number
2015.186.1.4
Art Historical Context
**Mabou Home**, a gelatin silver print by Robert Frank from around 2012, captures the intimate essence of the photographer's life in Mabou, Nova Scotia., the Swiss-born artist renowned for his groundbreaking 1958 photobook *The Americans*—which redefined documentary photography with its raw, unflinching portrayal of mid-century America—spent his later decades in this remote Canadian haven. There, he turned his lens inward, creating deeply personal images of his home and surroundings, a poignant shift from his earlier nomadic road trips. This modest-sized print (image: 22.1 × 14.9 cm) exemplif...
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...