Robert Frank
'Platte River, Tennessee'
Auction Closed
February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'Platte River, Tennessee'
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil, circular label with annotations and copyright in ink on the reverse, 1961, printed no later than 1978
image: 13¼ by 9 in. (33.7 by 22.9 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand (Tokyo, 1972), pl. 76
'Dear Robert — That photo you sent me of a guy looking over his cow on the Platte River is to me a photo of a man recognizing his own mind's essence, no matter what — Jean ton copain' (Postcard from Jack Kerouac to Robert Frank, 1960, Robert Frank: Thank You, p. 3)
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