Park/Sleep
May 2012
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View on museum website →Medium
book maquette with handwritten and typewritten text, 27 gelatin silver prints, 5 internal dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid SX-70), and 2 diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid)
Dimensions
overall: 29 × 25 × 3.2 cm (11 7/16 × 9 13/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jane P. Watkins
Accession Number
2015.186.1.1-32
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...