Robert Frank
Canal Street, New Orleans

Canal Street, New Orleans

© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

Canal Street, New Orleans
Canal Street, New Orleans
ArtistAmerican, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Canal Street, New Orleans
  • from the series The Americans
Date1955, printed 1972–1977
PlaceNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 × 10 15/16 in. (18.4 × 27.8 cm)
 Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number82.502
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryLoaned to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, for "Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document," from Jan. 18 - Apr. 30, 1995 (LN:95.7).
Exhibited: "Robert Frank: A Retrospective from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Cameron Foundation Gallery, July 14 - October 14, 2001.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in black ink, recto, below image: New Orleans 1956 Robert Frank
Signed in black ink, recto, below image: New Orleans 1956 Robert Frank

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