McClellanville, South Carolina (Barber shop through screen door)
Artist
Robert Frank
(American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019)
Date1955; printed ca. 1970s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 5/8 × 12 15/16 inches (21.92 × 32.84 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 inches (27.76 × 35.23 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 inches (27.76 × 35.23 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.25.4
SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "Robert Frank.";
On sheet verso, lower right, black stamp with pencil: "ROBERT FRANK ARCHIVE / THE AMERICANS 38 / BARBERSHOP THROUGH / SCREEN DOOR - MCCLELLANVILLE / SOUTH CAROLINA / 814"
InscribedInscribed and dated on sheet recto, lower left, in black pen: "McClellanville S.C 1955"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "33" [circled];
On sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "WJC226", "12".
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DescriptionImage of a barber shop chair as seen through a screen door with row of glass bottles on the ledge behind. Reflection of opposite side of street is visible in glass.Gallery LabelIn 1955, Robert Frank traveled across the United States with the intention of “making a broad, voluminous picture record of things American, past and present.” He exposed about 800 rolls of 35 mm film during his journey, a format that lent the work a grainy immediacy. He selected eighty-three images for his book, The Americans, published in 1959. This influential publication presented a complicated, personal vision of post-World War II America that ran counter to popular editorial and commercial conceptions.
This photograph, included in The Americans, contains a self-portrait: Frank’s shadow appears as a silhouette against the screen door through which he shoots.
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Robert Frank; Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
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