Mabou, Nova Scotia
1991
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 42.4 x 55.4 cm (16 11/16 x 21 13/16 in.) sheet: 50.8 x 60.8 cm (20 x 23 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1996.147.10
Art Historical Context
**Mabou, Nova Scotia (1991) is a captivating gelatin silver print by Robert Frank, the Swiss-born photographer whose groundbreaking work reshaped modern documentary photography. Measuring 42.4 x 55.4 cm, this image hails from Frank's personal, generously gifted to the National Gallery of Art. Captured late in his career, it a shift from his iconic 1950s road-trip portraits of America in *The Americans* to introspective scenes from his adopted home in Nova Scotia's serene Mabou region. Gelatin silver printing, a traditional darkroom process favored by Frank, yields deep blacks, crisp highlight...
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...