Robert Frank - Photographs New York Monday, April 4, 2016 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 4 April 2016 

  • Provenance

    Lee Gallery, Winchester

  • Literature

    National Gallery of Art, Washington, Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 178

  • Artist Biography

    Robert Frank

    Swiss • 1924

    As 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.

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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION

206

Robert Frank

Elizabethtown, North Carolina

1955
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
13 x 8 1/2 in. (33 x 21.6 cm)
Signed, dated, credited in ink, titled 'Elizabethville, South Carolina' [sic] in an unidentified hand in pencil, copyright and Archive stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 4 April 2016