Live Auction 372520/21 Photographs/ Leaves of Light and Shadow: Photographs Gathered by William T. Hillman
ROBERT FRANK (b. 1924)
Lot 12

ROBERT FRANK (b. 1924)

Coney Island, 4th July, 1958

Closed31 March 2015

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USD 30,000

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ROBERT FRANK (b. 1924)
Coney Island, 4th July, 1958
gelatin silver print
signed in ink (on the verso)
image/sheet: 10 7/8 x 7 1/4in. (27.8 x 19.5cm.)

With Houk Friedman Gallery, New York, 1993

Specialist note

Robert Frank spent the entire night of July 4th until the morning of July 5th photographing people sleeping on the beach at Coney Island. As in the present lot, he was testing the limits of his intrusion on the intimacy of strangers.