Park/Sleep

Robert Frank

May 2012

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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...

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