Wales 25
March 1953
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View on museum website →Medium
contact sheet
Dimensions
overall: 20.3 x 25.8 cm (8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1990.28.1969
Art Historical Context
**Wales 25** by Robert Frank, created in March 1953, offers a fascinating glimpse into the renowned photographer's working process. This contact sheet—a direct print of negatives onto paper—measures 20.3 x 25.8 and captures multiple frames from a single roll exposed in Wales. As a, contact sheets were essential tools for photographers like Frank, allowing them to review exposures up close and select the strongest images without enlargement, preserving the raw intimacy of the originals. Robert Frank, a Swiss-born artist who became a pivotal figure in 20th-century photography, produced this pie...
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...