Robert Frank
Motorama, Detroit

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Artist Robert Frank (American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019)American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019

CultureAmerican

Titles

Motorama, Detroit
from the series The Americans

Date1955–1956

PlaceDetroit, Michigan, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 1/8 × 12 3/16 in. (20.6 × 31 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 number83.98

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Photography

Special Collections

Target Collection of American Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"The Truth of the Real - Edward Hopper and Photography," Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, June 28–September 20, 1992.

"Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 18–April 30, 1995.

"Robert Frank in America," Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, California, September 10, 2014–January 5, 2015.

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