Birthday, Jan Müller--New York City no number

1958

Robert Frank

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Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a collection of photographic film strips. The image displays several strips of photographic negatives laid out in an organized fashion. Each strip contains small, individual frames depicting diverse scenes. Some of the frames include detailed images of vehicles adorned with decorative flags, and others capture urban scenes possibly showing buildings and crowds. The film strips have varying levels of exposure and detail, suggesting a mixture of lighting conditions and compositions during the original scenes captured. The photograph is monochromatic.
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The artist, New York; gift to NGA, 1994.

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Wikidata ID

Q64165632

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