Robert Frank

London
1952, printed 1953

A black and white photograph capturing a musician from behind as they ascend a set of stairs while carrying a double bass on their shoulder, with stage lighting casting their silhouette on the wall to the right.

A black and white photograph capturing a musician from behind as they ascend a set of stairs while carrying a double bass on their shoulder, with stage lighting casting their silhouette on the wall to the right.

Not on view

Date
1952, printed 1953

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Overall: 13 1/2 × 8 11/16in. (34.3 × 22.1 cm) Mount: 18 × 15in. (45.7 × 38.1 cm) Frame: 19 3/16 × 15 1/4in. (48.7 × 38.7 cm)

Accession number
95.169

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz

Rights and reproductions
© Robert Frank, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

API
artworks/10074

Exhibitions

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

June 26–Sept 22, 2002

Robert Frank
26 works in the collection, 11 exhibitions

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