Canal Street, New Orleans

Photography and Media

1955

Robert Frank
American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Robert Frank
Title: Canal Street, New Orleans
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1955
Medium: Gelatin silver print, from "The Americans" (1955/56)
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, in graphite: "3"; unmarked verso
Dimensions: Image/paper: 22.5 × 33.9 cm (8 7/8 × 13 3/8 in.); Mount: 55.9 × 45.6 cm (22 1/16 × 18 in.)
Credit Line: Photography Gallery Fund
Reference Number: 1961.944
Copyright: © Robert Frank

Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 357, cat. 407.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Bystander: A History of Street Photography,” December 10, 1994-April 16, 1995; traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art, January 16-April 4, 1999 (Chicago only). (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “What Am I Looking At: Robert Frank Photographs,” November 2, 2002-February 2, 2003. (Elizabeth Siegel)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Max Kozloff: Critic and Photographer,” October 5, 2013–January 5, 2014. (Michal Raz-Russo)

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