Robert Frank
Assembly Line, Detroit

Assembly Line, Detroit

© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

Assembly Line, Detroit
Assembly Line, Detroit
ArtistAmerican, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Assembly Line, Detroit
  • from the series The Americans
Date1955
PlaceDetroit, Michigan, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 × 11 11/16 in. (19.4 × 29.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number82.514
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 18–April 30, 1995.

"American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 7, 2012–January 2, 2013.

"Life is a Highway: American Car Culture," Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, June 15–September 15, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom left below image in ink " FORD PLANT 1955, River Rouge Detroit "
bottom right below image in ink " Robert Frank. "

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