City Fathers, Hoboken, New Jersey
(1955); printed 1977

Robert FRANK

Medium: gelatin silver photograph
Measurements: 20.9 × 30.4 cm (image) 28.0 × 35.4 cm (sheet)
Inscription: inscribed in ink l.l.: HOBOKEN N.J
inscribed in ink l.r.: Robert Frank. 77
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.l.: RF- 780-119-10
Accession Number: PH97-1978
Department: International Photography
Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1978
© Robert Frank, from The Americans
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Daryl and Anne Whinney
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Gallery location: Not on display
About this work: Photography has the capacity to show us something of ourselves and our world. For photographers such as Robert Frank, Roger Mayne, Diane Arbus and Larry Clark, the streets around them provided a wealth of material. The events of everyday life and the activities of everyday people have been photographed by each of these artists with an idiosyncratic eye. Their photographs are not simple documentary records of a time and place; rather, they are potent, highly individual reflections on the human condition.

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