New York (Yom Kippur)
Artist
Robert Frank
(American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019)
Date1955
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 × 10 7/16 inches (17.78 × 26.51 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 inches (27.94 × 35.4 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 inches (27.94 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1375
SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "Robert Frank.";
On sheet verso, lower left, black stamp with black pen: "COPYRIGHT © Robert Frank 1979 / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"
InscribedOn sheet recto, lower left, in black pen: "nyc 1955"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left, in pencil: "54";
On sheet verso, lower right, black stamp with pencil: "ROBERT FRANK ARCHIVE / 16 / 686"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of several men seen from behind wear dark coats and hats as they look out over a body of water. On right side of frame, a man wears a light colored suit and hat, and the boy wears a kippah.Exhibition HistoryMasters of 20th-Century Photography from the Hallmark Collection. Waterloo Municipal Galleries, Waterloo, IA, May 2 -June 13, 1982, no cat.
New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 – May 1, 1983.
Selections from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Highland Community College, Highland, KS, October 19 - November 11, 1993, no cat.
Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.
Typical of Frank’s photographs from The Americans, this image presents its subjects from an unconventional vantage point: most of these men are seen from behind. Wearing nearly identical dark hats and coats, the group at the left meld into a singular entity, while one man in a gray suit, and a young boy wearing a yarmulke, are set apart from the crowd at the image’s right. Here, Frank highlights the tensions between religious expression and individuality, age and youth.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1981;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Robert Frank; Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
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