Passport photos shop--San Antonio, Texas

1955

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

The largest object is a window covered with numerous small portrait photographs, flanked by two picture boards displaying portraits. In the foreground, to the left, there is a tall, rectangular machine labeled "YOUR WEIGHT AND FATE," while in front of the window, mid-height, there is a small stand with a different machine on it. The color palette is predominantly grayscale, as this is a black-and-white photograph. The image features a stone wall as the backdrop for the pictures and machines.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist, New York; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, no. 66.10.

Wikidata ID

Q64164157

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