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'Photographers are often surprised at some of the images they find on their films. But is it an accident that Frank snapped just as those politicians in high silk hats were exuding the utmost fatuity that even a small office-seeker can exhibit. Such strikes are not purely fortuitous. They happen consistently for expert practitioners.' - Walker Evans
ROBERT FRANK (b. 1924)
City Fathers -- Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955-56
Details
ROBERT FRANK (b. 1924)
City Fathers -- Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955-56
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1970
signed, titled and dated in ink (in the margin)
8¾ x 13 1/8in. (22.2 x 33.3cm.)
City Fathers -- Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955-56
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1970
signed, titled and dated in ink (in the margin)
8¾ x 13 1/8in. (22.2 x 33.3cm.)
Literature
Schuh, 'Robert Frank,' Camera, vol. 36, no. 8, August 1957, pp. 349-350; Frank, Les Américains, Delpire, 1958, [pl. 2], p. 9; Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, 1959, [pl. 2], n.p., and in all subsequent editions; Rotzler, 'Robert Frank,' Du, vol. 22, no. 1, January 1962, p. 17