Live Auction 2076Important Photographs From a Private American Collection
Robert Frank (b. 1924)
Lot 25

Robert Frank (b. 1924)

Welsh Miners, 1953

Closed17 October 2007

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USD 91,000

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Robert Frank (b. 1924)
Welsh Miners, 1953
gelatin silver print
signed in ink (in the margin); credit and date in unknown hand in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation and 'Robert Frank Archive' stamps (on the verso)
13¾ x 9 3/8in. (34.7 x 24 cm.)

Specialist note

The last major project Robert Frank undertook before obtaining the Guggenheim Fellowship was a story on Welsh miner, Ben James. He followed him throughout the day over the course of a few weeks. The entire photo essay consisting of sixteen photos appeared on six double-page spreads in U.S. Camera 1955. The present lot was not included in that publication but another print of this image appeared in Frank's retrospective exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1962.