Guggenheim 412--Los Angeles

1955-1956

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a series of black and white contact prints capturing industrial landscapes, automobiles, and groups of people. The image consists of numerous small, sequential photographs arranged in rows, depicting scenes including oil fields with machinery and rigs, vehicles traveling down streets lined with utility poles, and individuals engaged in outdoor activities like conversations and horse riding. Some frames suggest the presence of tools or bonding between characters and mechanical entities through the interplay of hands. The lighting creates rich contrasts between subjects and backgrounds, and the captured moments have a cinematic quality, as if contributing to an ongoing narrative or documentary series.
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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Wikidata ID

Q64161656

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