Guggenheim 145--New York City

1956-1957

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a contact sheet with multiple photographs showing an urban street scene featuring architectural elements and a visible clock. The image captures numerous small frames, positioned in a grid-like arrangement, depicting different moments or perspectives of the same scene. The background architecture suggests a mid-20th-century urban setting, with clean, linear designs and likely stone or concrete materials. A notable feature in several frames is a round clock mounted on a building facade. Rows of vertical and horizontal lines on the buildings suggest repetitive patterns in their architecture. Throughout the contact sheet, certain images are marked with red crosses, indicating perhaps selections or editorial notes about the preferred or rejected photographs.
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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Wikidata ID

Q64162471

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