Robert Frank

Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York City
1955

Black and white photo of a large stack of various magazines in the foreground with a tall, ornate Art Deco style building in the background. A street lamp is visible on the right side of the frame. The image captures a contrast between printed media and urban architecture.
Black and white photo of a large stack of various magazines in the foreground with a tall, ornate Art Deco style building in the background. A street lamp is visible on the right side of the frame. The image captures a contrast between printed media and urban architecture.

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Date
1955

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm) Image: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2in. (34.3 × 26.7 cm)

Accession number
2003.412

Series
The Americans

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Manny and Skippy Gerard

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

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