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Robert Frank

'Railroad Sta. Memphis' (Men's Room, Railway Station—Memphis, Tennessee)

Auction Closed

February 22, 08:37 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

'Railroad Sta. Memphis' (Men's Room, Railway Station—Memphis, Tennessee)


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1955, printed no later than 1978

image: 8¼ by 12½ in. (21 by 31.8 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer, 1978

The Americans, no. 52


Aaron Siskind and Jonathan Logan, eds., 'Photographs by Robert Frank,' Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography, 1962, p. 101


Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 4


Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 273 and 475, and Contact no. 52