Los Angeles, 1955

Details

ROBERT FRANK (1924-2019)
Los Angeles, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
signed, titled, and dated in ink (margin)
image: 13 ½ x 9 in. (34.2 x 22.8 cm.)
sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.5 x 28 cm.)

Provenance

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004.

Literature

Robert Frank, Les Américains, Delpire, Paris, 1958, no. 61.
Robert Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, New York, 1959, no. 61, and in all subsequent editions.
Rudolph Wurlitzer, The Aperture History of Photography: Robert Frank, Vol. 2, Aperture, New York, 1976, p. 7.
Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out, National Gallery of Art, Scalo; Washington D.C., Zurich, 1994, p. 193.
Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank: The Americans, Fourth Edition, Scalo, Zurich, 2000, p. 131.

Exhibited

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, Real to Real: Photographs from the Trevor Traina Collection, June 9, 2012 - September 16, 2012.

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Lot Essay

This lot on offer is an early, 1960s print of the image, and one four Robert Frank images in this sale that was originally published in The Americans. The Americans was originally published in 1958 and has since become a landmark in the history of photography. Frank’s work on this project was supported by the Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed him to travel across the United States, documenting its people and places with a fresh and unflinching perspective.

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