Venice, Italy 24
1964
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contact sheet
Dimensions
overall: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 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
1990.28.3348
Art Historical Context
**Venice, Italy 24** by Robert Frank captures the intimate, behind-the-scenes world of a master's photographic process. Created in 1964, this contact sheet—measuring just 25.2 x 20.2 cm—presents a grid of small, unedited exposures from a single roll of film, shot on the canals and streets of Venice, Italy. As a contact print, it directly transfers the negative's details onto paper, preserving the raw immediacy of Frank's observations without enlargement or retouching. Robert Frank, the Swiss-born photographer renowned for his groundbreaking 1958 book *The Americans*, revolutionized documentar...
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...