Robert Frank (American, 1924-2019). Charleston, South Carolina (from The Americans), 1956. Gelatin silver print, printed...

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Robert Frank (American, 1924-2019)
Charleston, South Carolina (from The Americans), 1956
Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
12-1/4 x 18-1/4 inches (31.1 x 46.4 cm) (image)
16 x 20 inches (sheet)
Signed, titled, and dated in ink, lower margin recto.

LITERATURE:
R. Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, New York, 1958, no. 13;
Robert Frank, Aperture, Millerton, NY, 1961, p. 7;
S. Greenough, Sarah & P. Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out, Scalo, Washington, D. C./National Gallery of Art, 1994, pp. 173 and 197;
P. Galassi, Robert Frank: In America, Steidl Verlag, Go¨ttingen, 2014, p. 132;
S. Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen/National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2009, pp. xiii, 225, 463, 465, and contact no. 13.

It was the first time I was in the South, and the first time I really saw segregation. I found it extraordinary that whites would give their children to black women when they wouldn't allow the women to sit by them in the drugstore. I did very few pictures that made a political point like this.
ROBERT FRANK


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