Guggenheim 19--Charleston, South Carolina

1955

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a contact sheet featuring various black and white images. The contact sheet consists of multiple rows and columns of small photographs arranged in a grid pattern. Each photograph captures different urban scenes, including buildings, streets, and residential areas. Some of the images highlight a rural setting with fields and distant structures, while others show closer views of multi-storey buildings with distinct architectural details. There are red annotations on the second row, marking four photos in a sequence depicting a street scene with a stop sign and a building in the background, and on the fourth row, marking two images that appear to depict a busy seating area or cafe. The photographs are bordered by the film strip margins showing the typical black frame and sprocket holes that indicate they were taken on Kodak safety film.
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Provenance

Gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Wikidata ID

Q64162467

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