Me and My Brother
1968
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 34 × 21.5 cm (13 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.) sheet: 35.5 × 28 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Anonymous gift for Pablo and Andrea)
Accession Number
2015.19.4481
Art Historical Context
Robert Frank's *Me and My Brother*1968) is a poignant gelatin silver print capturing an intimate family moment, measuring 34 × 21.5 cm. As a Swiss-born photographer who became an American icon, Frank is best known for his groundbreaking 1958 book *The*, which revolutionized documentary photography with its raw,inching portrayal of mid-20th-century life. By 1968—a year marked by social upheaval, including the Vietnam War protests and assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. Robert Kennedy—Frank had shifted toward more personal, introspective work, moving away from the road-trip objectivity of h...
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...