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ROBERT FRANK, (American, b. Zurich, Switzerland, 1924), VIEW FROM HOTEL WINDOW -- BUTTE MONTANA, ...

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ROBERT FRANK, (American, b. Zurich, Switzerland, 1924), VIEW FROM HOTEL WINDOW -- BUTTE MONTANA, ...
ROBERT FRANK
(American, b. Zurich, Switzerland, 1924)
VIEW FROM HOTEL WINDOW -- BUTTE MONTANA
titled, dated and signed "Butte - Montana 1954 / Robert Frank 1973" in black ink on verso
gelatin silver print
83/8 x 129/16 in. (21.3 x 31.9 cm)
1956
printed 1973
ESTIMATE: $5,000-7,000
PROVENANCE
Light Gallery, NEW YORK
EXHIBITED
WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK, Center for Photographs, CORPORATE COLLECTIONS, April 26 - May 27, 1986
LITERATURE
Robert Frank, LES AM+RICAINS, Paris, Delpire, 1958, p. 57 [pl. 26] (illustrated)
NOTE: We have chosen to assign a plate number because the sequence through the various editions has always remained constant while the pagination, as demonstrated here, has changed several times
Robert Frank, GLI AMERICANI, Milan, Il Saggiatore, 1959, p. 57 [pl. 26] (illustrated)
Robert Frank, THE AMERICANS, NEW YORK, Grove Press, 1959, n.p. [pl. 26] (illustrated)
Robert Frank, THE AMERICANS, NEW YORK, Aperture/Museum of Modern Art and Aperture/Grossman, 1968 and 1969, n.p. [pl. 26] (illustrated)
Robert Frank, THE LINES OF MY HAND, Tokyo, Yugensha, 1972, p. 83 (illustrated)
Robert Frank, THE LINES OF MY HAND, [NEW YORK], Lustrum Press, 1972, n.p. (illustrated)
"Robert Frank: The Lines of My Hand," U.S. CAMERA/CAMERA 35 ANNUAL: AMERICA: PHOTOGRAPHIC STATEMENTS, NEW YORK, U.S. Camera, 1972, n.p. (illustrated)
ROBERT FRANK, History of Photography Series no. 2, Millerton, NEW YORK, Aperture, 1976, p. 39 (illustrated)
Robert Frank, THE AMERICANS, Millerton, NEW YORK, Aperture, 1978, p. 63 [pl. 26] (illustrated)
John Szarkowski, MIRRORS AND WINDOWS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1960, NEW YORK, Museum of Modern Art, 1978, p. 17 (illustrated)
Tod Papageorge, WALKER EVANS AND ROBERT FRANK: AN ESSAY ON INFLUENCE, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1981, n.p. (illustrated)
Peter Turner, ed., AMERICAN IMAGES: PHOTOGRAPHY 1945-1980, London, Penguin Books/Barbican Art Gallery, 1985, p. 61 (illustrated)
Robert Frank, LES AM+RICAINS, Paris, Delpire, 1986, p. 61 [pl. 26] (illustrated)
Robert Frank, DIE AMERIKANER, Munich, Christian Verlag, 1986, p. 61 [pl. 26] (illustrated)
Robert Frank, THE AMERICANS, NEW YORK, Pantheon, 1986, p. 61 [pl. 26] (illustrated)
Robert Frank, THE AMERICANS, NEW YORK and Zurich, Scalo, 1993 & 1998, p. 61 [pl. 26] (illustrated)
Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, eds., ROBERT FRANK: MOVING OUT, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1994, p. 188 (illustrated)
George Webber, "New Views: Robert Frank's Window," DOUBLE TAKE, no. 26, Fall 2001, pp. 114-115 (illustrated)
While traveling alone across the northern states, Robert Frank made this photograph from his hotel room window. It captures a feeling of personal loneliness, while also evoking the broad history of mining towns in the American west. Included in his seminal book, THE AMERICANS, this photograph opposes the images of a bright, sunny America that dominated magazines such as LIFE and LOOK. A few years after making this picture, Frank traveled to Florida with Jack Kerouac who attempted to describe how Frank captured such bleak beauty. "Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best, moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days... Outside the diner, seeing nothing as usual, I walked on, but Robert suddenly stopped and took a picture of a solitary pole with a cluster of silver bulbs way up on top, and behind it a forlorn American Landscape so unspeakably indescribable, to make a Marcel Proust shudder... how beautiful to be able to detail a scene like that, on a gray day, and show even the mud, abandoned tin cans and old building blocks laid at the foot of it, and in the distance the road, the old going road with its trucks, cars, poles, roadside houses, trees, signs, crossings... little details writers usually forget about" (Jack Kerouac, "On the Road to Florida," EVERGREEN REVIEW, no. 74, January 1970, p. 43).