11th Street story 50/People You Don't See 2

1951

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a contact sheet displaying multiple black and white images. The contact sheet shows small sequential photographs of street scenes in an urban environment. The scenes capture various perspectives of streets or alleys with vehicles and structures. Some frames show obscured figures carrying or moving objects in the background. Markings on the contact sheet highlight specific frames. The images feature cars from a mid-20th-century era, buildings, and intense shadows, indicating a busy city scene with dynamic lighting contrasts created by natural sunlight.

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

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Wikidata ID

Q64163505

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