Robert Frank - Photographs New York Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Literature

    Aperture, The Americans, 1969, pl.39
    Delpire, Les Américains, 1968, pl. 39
    Green, American Photography, p. 174
    Grove Press, The Americans, 1968, pl. 39
    National Gallery of Art, Washington/ Steidl, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, 2009, p. 257, pl.39
    Scalo/DAP, The Americans, 1995, pl. 39
    Steidl, The Americans, 1998, pl. 39

  • 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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Backyard, Venice West, California

1955-1956
Gelatin silver print, printed 1977.
8 x 11 7/8 in. (20.3 x 30.2 cm)
Signed and dated in ink in the margin; titled, annotated 'Americans 39/206' in an unidentified hand in pencil and 'Robert Frank Archive' stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Contact Specialist
Vanessa Kramer Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs
vhallett@phillips.com
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Photographs

4 April 2012
New York