Robert Frank
Motorama, Detroit

Motorama, Detroit

© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

Motorama, Detroit
Motorama, Detroit
ArtistAmerican, 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
Not on view

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Department
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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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