Robert Frank

Nationality: Swiss-born American

Training: Apprenticed to Hermann Segesser in Zurich

Peers: Walker Evans; Bill Brandt; William Klein; Louis Fauer

Group: photography; filmmaker; Street Photography; New York School of Photography; 20th century; 21st century

Provenance: donated by Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft in 2004

Subject: documentary; lived experience; rural landscape; urban street





Other Works in the Vancouver Art Gallery Collection


Robert Frank
William Buckley, 1962
silver gelatin print on photo paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 87.3

Robert Frank
Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Julius Orlovsky, 1980
silver gelatin print on photo paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 87.4

Robert Frank
Memphis
silver gelatin print on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 2004.37.78

Robert Frank
Yale Commencement, New Haven Green, New Haven, Connecticut
silver gelatin print on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 2004.37.79

Robert Frank
Chicago Convention
silver gelatin print on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 2004.37.81

Robert Frank
Wellfleet, Massachusetts
silver gelatin print on paper
Gift of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft
VAG 2004.37.82

Robert Frank
Cafe, Beaufort, South Carolina
silver gelatin print on paper
Gift of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft
VAG 2004.37.83