Certainly isolation and sadness appear throughout the work, whether it be three crosses marking the scene of an accident along U.S. 91, Idaho from 1956, an anonymous outstretched arm offering medallions for sale at a San Gennaro festival in 1950, or a Paris park scene c. 1951 in which a couple sit side by side on a bench, bodies touching, but seemingly oblivious to one another.

Irony plays an important role in Frank’s work as well, and this is vividly presented in two unusual works from 1961: plaster angels float across the window of a New Jersey laundromat, and flashbulbs and cigarette butts are all that remain from an evening gala in a Venetian dining hall.

Over twenty works in the exhibit follow Frank in a wide path around the world, including Peru, Paris, London, Venice, New York, Wyoming and Idaho. At every stop Frank brought his singular vision into play, and the results changed how subsequent generations would see the world.

List of Photographs

1] NYC, 1948 (14th Street White Tower), printed 1970's
    variant of page 33, Moving Out

2] US 91 Leaving Blackfoot, Idaho, 1956, printed 1970's
    reproduced The Americans, page 72

3] Charity Ball, NYC, 1955, printed 1970's

4] Crosses on Scene of Highway Accident, US 91, Idaho, 1955
    printed 1970's, reproduced in The Americans, page 106

5] San Gennaro, NYC, 1950, printed 1970's
   reproduced in Moving Out, page 35

6] NYC, 1961 or 1955 (Cadillac), printed 1970's
    reproduced in Robert Frank, Pantheon, plate 13

7] Political Rally, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1956
    printed 1970's, reproduced in The Americans, page 124

8] Hoboken, Political Rally, 1955
    variant of plate 10, The Americans

9] Franz Kline, NYC, 1959
    reproduced in The Lines of My Hand, page 53

10] Willem de Kooning, NYC, 1962
      reproduced in The Lines of My Hand, page 54

11] Railroad Station, Memphis, 1955

12] Children Playing on London Street, c.1953

13] US 285, New Mexico, 1956, printed c.1960
      reproduced in The Americans, plate 80

14] Peru, 1948 (woman with large hat)

15] Untitled, Michigan (girls in convertible, 1955

16] Norman Mailer, c.1958
      variant of page 75, The Lines of My Hand

17] Paris, 1952 (couple on bench in garden)

18] Venice, 1961 (empty room with flashbulbs)

19] Funeral, Frogmoor, Beaufort, SC, 1955
      reproduced in The Americans, variant of page 120

20] Caerau, Wales, 1951/1953
      reproduced in Moving Out, variant of p.83

21] New York, 1958 (old man and boy)
      reproduced in Robert Frank, Pantheon, variant of page 21

22] Coney Island, 4th of July, 1958
      variant of page 96, The Lines of My Hand

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