Guggenheim 345--Esso oil refinery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

November 1955

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a series of black and white images on a contact sheet. The photographs depict various street scenes, likely from a mid-20th century urban environment. The images show automobiles, people, and industrial or urban backdrops. The images are framed in vertical and horizontal strips, typical of a contact sheet used by photographers to review a batch of shots. Several classic cars can be seen driving by with signs of activity or motion in the background, such as a crowd near a building, city structures, and an industrial facility with smoke stacks or machinery. The photographs vary in focus and angle, capturing a slice of daily life during that period, with some images circled in red.
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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Wikidata ID

Q64161856

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