Robert Frank
Beaufort, South Carolina

Beaufort, South Carolina

© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

Beaufort, South Carolina
Beaufort, South Carolina
ArtistAmerican, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Beaufort, South Carolina
  • from the series The Americans
Date1955
PlaceBeaufort, South Carolina, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/8 × 13 5/8 in. (23.2 × 34.6 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.8 × 35.3 cm)
Frame: 16 3/4 × 20 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (42.5 × 52.7 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number82.515
Not on view

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Department
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Description

Widely regarded as one of the
most influential photographers of all time, Robert Frank’s rough, highly
charged images have had a profound influence worldwide on several generations
of artists. His fame rests largely on one book,
The Americans (1959). A project of epic proportions—to document
American culture and society—Frank’s images cut through the clichés and
sentimentality that characterized most photography of the post-war era by
presenting cars, juke boxes, diners, gas stations, and even the road itself as
more insightful symbols for contemporary American life than sweeping, majestic
landscapes.




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.

Exhibited "Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures",
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December 3 - February 25, 2007
Austin Museum of Art May 19 - August 12, 2007
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi June 5 - August 24, 2008

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