Robert Frank (1924-2019) St. Petersburg, Florida, 1956 Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1983; signed in ink in the margin, the photographer's Archive stamp, with title and annotations in pencil, on the reverse. 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (16.2 x 24.1 cm.) sheet 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.) Footnotes: Provenance Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1983 Literature The Americans, no. 33 'The Highway: Four Photographs by Robert Frank,' Current, November 1960, p. 34 Willy Rotzler, 'Der Photograph Robert Frank,' Du, January 1962, p. 16 Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 83 Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 51 Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pl. 143 Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 4 Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 249 and 470 and contact no. 33 Note Robert Frank's yearlong journey across the United States, funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship, ultimately resulted in the 1958 publication of The Americans, one of the most celebrated bodies of work in post-war photography. Like many of the plates included in the book, St. Petersburg documents everyday life in a small town. In such images, Frank discarded the myth of the 'American dream' and replaced it with a pervasive sense of estrangement and vulnerability. Prints of this image are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015.776), Whitney Museum of American Art (2003.413), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1990.28.121), and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (416.1959), among others. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing