ROBERT FRANK (B. 1924)

Charleston, S.C., 1956

Details

ROBERT FRANK (B. 1924)
Charleston, S.C., 1956
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1970
signed, titled and dated in ink (in the margin)
12¼ x 18¼in. (31 x 46.2cm.)

Literature

Frank, Les Américains, Delpire, 1958, [pl. 13], p. 31; Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, 1959, [pl. 13], n.p., and all subsequent editions; 'Robert Frank,' Aperture, vol. 9, no. 1, 1961, p. 7; Rotzler, 'Robert Frank,' Du, vol. 22, no. 1, January 1962, p. 17; Documentary Photography, Time-Life Books, 1972, p. 171; Greenough and Brookman, eds., Robert Frank: Moving Out, National Gallery of Art/Scalo, 1994, p. 197

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Lot Essay

It was the first time I was in the South, and the first time I really saw segregation. I found it extraordinary that whites would give their children to black women when they wouldn't allow the women to sit by them in the drugstore. ROBERT FRANK

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