Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986
Sotheby's, New York, Important Photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including Works from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, 15 February 2006, lot 106
The Americans, no. 79
Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, pp. 305, 482, contact no. 79
Galassi, Robert Frank: In America, p. 152
Green, American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to the Present, p. 89
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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