Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
Robert Frank
Cynthia MacAdams
No reserve
Lot Closed
December 18, 08:11 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1914 - 2019
gelatin silver print, signed, dated, and inscribed 'For Cynthia' and 'Thanks' in ink on the reverse, framed, 1963
image: 9½ by 13⅝ (24.1 by 42.2 cm.)
frame: 21½ by 17¼ (54.6 by 43.8 cm.)
Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
After Robert Frank published his photobook The Americans in 1958, he turned his attention to film, creating several beginning with a collaboration with Beat writers Jack Keroac and Allen Ginsberg. Cynthia MacAdams was among the actors in Frank's films, appearing in Me and My Brother (1969). MacAdams had studied theater first at Northwestern University and later at the Actors Studio in New York with Lee Strasberg. She began photographing in the 1970s and became lifelong friends with Frank. MacAdams is best-known for her 1977 book Emergence, a visual record of second-wave feminist figures, featuring her photographs of Patti Smith, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Judy Chicago, among many others. "I looked for women who could say, ‘F— off,’ if they didn’t agree with you,” writes MacAdams about the book, “for women who had strength and softness in their eyes and a directness in the way they dealt with their life."