Mabou Winter Footage
1977
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print with pen and black ink
Dimensions
image: 48.8 x 39.5 cm (19 3/16 x 15 9/16 in.) sheet: 50.6 x 40.9 cm (19 15/16 x 16 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
1992.103.1
Art Historical Context
Robert Frank's *Mabou Winter Footage (1977) captures the stark beauty of a Canadian winter from his adopted home in Mabou, Nova Scotia.owned for his groundbreaking photobook *The Americans*1958), which revolutionized documentary photography with its raw, unflinching portrayal of mid-century America, Frank retreated from fame in the 1960s to pursue deeply personal work. By the 1970s, living on a remote farm, he turned his lens—and hand—toward intimate landscapes, evoking solitude and the passage of time. This gelatin silver print, traditional black-and-white process prized for its rich tonal r...
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...