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Hold Still, Keep Going

A work made of gelatin silver print.
© Robert Frank

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

December 1987

Artist:

Robert Frank
American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Robert Frank

Title

Hold Still, Keep Going

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1987

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, center, above image, in brown ink: "Many have given me their help and their friendship / Werner Bryd [?]- Sheila Curtis - Robert Delpire - Gary Hill / Anne Tucker - Kazutiko Motomura - Louis Faurer / Vicent Tovoli - Sid Kaplan - Peter MacGill - Reginald / Raukin [?] - Michael Hammer [?] - Rudi Wurlitzer - / Philip Brookman - Louis Silverstein -, Marty Greenbaum.... / How still Keep going -"; inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite: "LOHM 119 / 1093 VI"; verso, lower center, upside-down, in graphite: "BTM / [arrow pointing down]"

Dimensions

Image: 22.9 × 33 cm (9 1/16 × 13 in.); Paper: 50.4 × 40.4 cm (19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Frank

Reference Number

2000.373

Copyright

© Robert Frank

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