The Cognoscenti know Robert Frank
from a writing exercise devoted to candid expression
in the Magical Worlds Communications Workshop.
Robert Frank vintage prints usually open at auction for
about $20,000. This one will open for just $18,000 since
it was printed a dozen years after the shot was taken.
from a writing exercise devoted to candid expression
in the Magical Worlds Communications Workshop.
Robert Frank vintage prints usually open at auction for
about $20,000. This one will open for just $18,000 since
it was printed a dozen years after the shot was taken.
From the Bus, New York, 1958
Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s. 9 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.
Signed and titled in ink on the recto; credited in ink, titled,
numbered 47 in an unidentified hand in pencil,
Robert Frank Archive and copyright stamps on the verso.
Signed and titled in ink on the recto; credited in ink, titled,
numbered 47 in an unidentified hand in pencil,
Robert Frank Archive and copyright stamps on the verso.
“Whenever I look at these pictures
I think that I ought to be able to say something about the way it felt when I took them and how I took them (with a Leica) and why I like them. The Bus carries me thru the City, I look out the window, I look at the people on the street, the Sun and the Traffic Lights. It has to do with desperation and endurance – I have always felt that about living in New York. Compassion and probably some understanding for New York’s Concrete and its people, walking… waiting… standing up… holding hands… the summer of 1958. The gray around the picture to heighten the feeling of seeing from the inside to the outside.”
– Robert Frank, National Gallery of Art,
Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 204