Guggenheim 372--Gallup, New Mexico

December 1955

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a contact sheet featuring various film negatives. The contact sheet contains black-and-white film strips showing images of automobiles, buildings, and road scenes. Some negatives show vintage cars, with arrows and markings like a red "X" and circles in color pencil indicating highlights or selections. The images feature cars on roads, parked cars with views through windows, groups of people outside buildings and stores with visible signage advertising sales, deserted roads with poles, and a dark doorway or entrance. The overall theme of the images is exterior and roadside ambiance captured in a candid, documentary style.
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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Wikidata ID

Q64163176

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