Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
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October 1, 06:07 PM GMT
Estimate
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ROBERT FRANK
1924-2019
'ARIZONA U. S. 66' (CAR ACCIDENT, BETWEEN WINSLOW AND FLAGSTAFF)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink on the image, 1955, probably printed in the 1960s
image: 8¼ by 12¾ in. (21 by 32.4 cm.)
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, 2005
By descent to the present owner
The Americans, no. 35
Tom Maloney, ed., U. S. Camera 1958 (New York, 1957), p. 92
LIFE Library of Photography: Documentary Photography (New York, 1970), p. 175
Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand (Tokyo, 1972), p. 79
Robert Frank (Aperture, 1976), p. 55
Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 188
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 251, 470, and 471, and Contact no. 35
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank: In America (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2014), p. 157
David Campany, The Open Road: Photography & The American Road Trip (New York, 2014), p. 49
'In the isolation of the Arizona desert, bypassed by the mainstream of American life, these Indians from a Navajo reservation see and hear the transcontinental traffic that roars past them on Route 66—but rarely get more than a glimpse of the people in the speeding cars. Now sudden death on the highway has changed all that, depositing two of these remote people at their feet. Stolidly contemplating the two blanketed corpses from another world, the Indians are still as distant from that world as ever.' (LIFE Library of Photography: Documentary Photography, p. 175)