Guggenheim 583--San Francisco

March-April 1956

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a contact sheet showing various city scenes and events. The contact sheet includes multiple black and white images arranged in strips. The uppermost images depict urban street scenes featuring automobiles, buildings, and intersections. Cars populate a wide street flanked by multi-story apartment complexes in the background. Another sequence in the middle shows a cable car trundling along a cityscape with buildings and storefronts. Further down the sheet, there are images capturing moments of gatherings or meetings indoors, with people engaged with papers on tables. Towards the bottom, there are images of a beach or coastal area, showing sailboats with sails extended and contemporary mid-century architecture in close proximity. The tone of the entire sheet casts a historical, documentary quality.
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Provenance

Gift to NGA, 1990.

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Wikidata ID

Q64161770

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