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Hershey story 1

1956

Robert Frank

Associated Names

Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of black and white contact sheets with multiple images taken from a film reel. The sheet consists of strips of film negatives displaying small sequential photographs of various scenes, including indoor settings with furniture, clothing, and textiles. The images depict different scenes that could be related to a narrative, arranged in rows with white borders and numbering indicating the film strip and frame number.

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Artwork overview

Medium

contact sheet
Credit Line

Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Dimensions

sheet: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Accession Number

1994.37.992
Copyright

© Robert Frank Foundation

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist, New York; gift to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Frank, Robert

Inscriptions

upper center verso in black pencil: 1 (circled)

Wikidata ID

Q64165470

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