Robert Frank (American, 1924-2019) Charleston, South Carolina (from The Americans), 1946 Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s 12-1/4 x 18-1/4 inches (31.1 x 46.4 cm) (image) 16 x 20 inches (sheet) Signed, titled, and dated in ink, lower margin recto. LITERATURE: R. Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, New York, 1958, no. 13; Robert Frank, Aperture, Millerton, NY, 1961, p. 7; S. Greenough, Sarah & P. Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out, Scalo, Washington, D. C./National Gallery of Art, 1994, pp. 173 and 197; P. Galassi, Robert Frank: In America, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2014, p. 132; S. Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen/National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2009, pp. xiii, 225, 463, 465, and contact no. 13. It was the first time I was in the South, and the first time I really saw segregation. I found it extraordinary that whites would give their children to black women when they wouldn't allow the women to sit by them in the drugstore. I did very few pictures that made a political point like this. ROBERT FRANK HID12401132022 © 2025 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice
