Photographs
Photographs
Robert Frank
Peep Show
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April 13, 07:10 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
Peep Show
gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, the Robert Frank Archive and copyright stamps, with title, date, credit, and annotations in ink and pencil, on the reverse, circa 1960, printed later
image: 8 ⅜ by 12 in. (21.3 by 30.5 cm.)
Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, circa 1983
Gay Talese, "42nd Street—How it Got that Way," SHOW 1:3, December 1961, pp. 68-69
Peep Show is part of a series Frank shot for Gay Talese’s December 1961 Show Magazine article, "42nd Street—it got that way.’ Frank’s photographs portraying the colorful cast of characters that frequent the Times Square theater district accompanied Talese’s humorous diatribe against the “endless freak show in mid-Manhattan that shimmies with light, waddles with pigeons, and teems with tourists” (Talese, p. 42).