PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
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Robert Frank
Covered Car— Long Beach, California
- Estimate
- $50,000 - 70,000
$75,000
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s.
1955-1956
9 1/4 x 14 in. (23.5 x 35.6 cm)
Signed in ink in the margin.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"I seek to portray Americans as they live at present. Their every day and their Sunday, their realism and dream. The look of their cities, towns and highways..."
-Robert Frank
Please reference the beginning of the afternoon session (lot 140) for an essay on this collection.
-Robert Frank
Please reference the beginning of the afternoon session (lot 140) for an essay on this collection.
Provenance
Literature
Robert Frank
Swiss | 1924As one of the leading visionaries of mid-century American photography, Robert Frank has created an indelible body of work, rich in insight and poignant in foresight. In his famed series The Americans, Frank travelled the United States, capturing the parade of characters, hierarchies and imbalances that conveyed his view of the great American social landscape.
Frank broke the mold of what was considered successful documentary photography with his "snapshot aesthetic." It is Frank's portrayal of the United States through grit and grain that once brought his work to the apex of criticism, but has now come to define the art of documentary photography.
Browse ArtistFrank broke the mold of what was considered successful documentary photography with his "snapshot aesthetic." It is Frank's portrayal of the United States through grit and grain that once brought his work to the apex of criticism, but has now come to define the art of documentary photography.