Robert Frank
Drive-in Movie, Detroit

Drive-in Movie, Detroit

© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

Drive-in Movie, Detroit
Drive-in Movie, Detroit
ArtistAmerican, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Drive-in Movie, Detroit
  • from the series The Americans
Date1955
PlaceDetroit, Michigan, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 11/16 × 13 in. (22.1 × 33 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Jerry E. and Nanette Finger
Object number84.127
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Prague, August 1–September 30, 1989.

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

"Car Culture," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, January 18–April 27, 2008.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom left below image in ink " DETROIT, Michigan "
bottom right below image in ink " Robert Frank. 1955 "

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