Weekend at Uribe's house 3
1953
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contact sheet
Dimensions
sheet: 25.3 x 20.3 cm (9 15/16 x 8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1994.37.605
Art Historical Context
"Weekend at Uribe's 3" is a contact sheet from 1953 by Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, housed in the National Gallery Art's Robert Frank Collection Created as a sheet of 25.3 x 203 cm, this photograph classification reveals multiple exposures in a single frame—a raw proof of Frank's working process during his early years in America. Contact sheets like this were essential tools for, allowing artists to review negatives directly and select the strongest images, offering museum visitors a rare window into creative decision-making. In 1953, Frank was honing his signature street photography...
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...