Robert Frank - Photographs London Tuesday, November 22, 2022 | Phillips

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  • “Realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.”
    —Robert Frank 

    • Literature

      S. Greenough, Looking In. Robert Frank’s The Americans, Göttingen: Steidl, 2009, p. 305, 482

    • 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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Chicago

1956
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
34 x 23 cm (13 3/8 x 9 in.)
Signed, dated in ink in the margin; 'Robert Frank Archive', copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps and annotated in another hand in ink/pencil on the verso.

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Estimate
£15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for £15,120

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London Auction 22 November 2022