ROBERT FRANK (B. 1924)

Porte de Clignancourt, Paris, 1952

Details

ROBERT FRANK (B. 1924)
Porte de Clignancourt, Paris, 1952
gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1954
signed in pencil by Mary Frank, annotation 'Camera #84' in ink and stamped 'June 23 1954' (on the verso)
8¾ x 13¾in. (22.2 x 35cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
Mary Frank;
With Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York;

Literature

Frank, Black, White and Things, [self-published], 1952, pl. 33; 'Der Photograph Robert Frank,' Das Wochenende in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1 November 1952, p. 1; Dobell, 'Feature Pictures: Robert Frank ... The Photographer as Poet,' U.S. Camera, vol. 17, no. 9, September 1954, pp. 80-81, this print; Schuh, 'Robert Frank,' Camera, vol. 36, no. 8, August 1957, p. 341; Rotzler, 'Robert Frank,' Du, vol. 22, no. 1, January 1962, pp. 8-9; Frank, The Lines of My Hand, Yugensha, 1972, p. 35; Frank, The Lines of My Hand, Lustrum Press, 1972, n.p.

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Lot Essay

The engraver's marks on the back of this print illustrating how this print was to be spread across two pages indicate that this was the actual print used for a six-page spread in the September 1954 issue of U.S. Camera magazine. It was the first major article in the American press about Robert Frank and his work since his page in Life magazine in 1951 for winning a Young Photographer's prize.

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