Robert Frank

Acquired from the photographer, 1978

Tom Maloney, ed., U. S. Camera 1958 (New York, 1958), p. 92  

The Americans, no. 35

Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand (Tokyo, 1972), p. 79

LIFE Library of Photography: Documentary Photography (New York, 1972), p. 175

Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 55

Concerning Photography: Some Thoughts About Reading Photographs (London, 1977), pl. 80

Janet Malcolm, Diana & Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography (Boston, 1980), pl. 77

Jo C. Tartt,Taken: Photography and Death (Washington, D.C., 1989), pl. 47

Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 188

Christian A. Peterson, Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2009), p. 91

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 251, 470, and 471, and Contact no. 35

Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 157

David Campany, The Open Road: Photography & The American Road Trip (New York, 2014), p. 49

'In the isolation of the Arizona desert, bypassed by the mainstream of American life, these Indians from a Navajo reservation see and hear the transcontinental traffic that roars past them on Route 66—but rarely get more than a glimpse of the people in the speeding cars.  Now sudden death on the highway has changed all that, depositing two of these remote people at their feet. Stolidly contemplating the two blanketed corpses from another world, the Indians are still as distant from that world as ever.' (LIFE Library of Photography:  Documentary Photography, p. 175)