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Robert Frank

Cafeteria - San Francisco

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October 17, 05:12 PM GMT

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Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

Cafeteria - San Francisco


gelatin silver print, signed, dated '1956' and '77' and annotated 'S. F.' in ink in the margin, a Harry Lunn archive stamp, with title, date an annotation '485' and 'Americans 68' in pencil, on the reverse

image: 12⅝ by 8⅜ in. (32.1 by 21.3 cm.)

Executed in 1956, printed later.

Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 68

Drew Johnson, Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 to the Present (New York, 2001), p. 228

Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003), p. 113

Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 3

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 293, 479, and 480, and Contact no. 68