Assembly Plant, Ford, Detroit, 1955, printed ca. 1960s

  • Robert Frank, American, 1924 - 2019

Gelatin silver print

  • Image: 12 7/8 × 8 1/2 inches (32.7 × 21.6 cm) Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Coville Photographic Fund

1999.11

Signed in black pen and ink, lower right: Robert Frank

Inscribed, dated in black pen and ink, lower left: 1955 FORD PLANT In pencil, verso, upper right corner: R.F. 239.1; LOMH 64 | 400 - 75 - II Lower right corner: 410

1997, Robert Frank (New York, New York, USA). 1997-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Robert Frank: Flower Is.... Tokyo, 1987, pl. 53. Robert Frank: The Lines of My Land. New York, 1989, pl. 64. Barr, Nancy. "Truth, Memory, and the American Working-Class City: Robert Frank in Detroit and at the Rouge."Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 76, no. 1/2 (2002): p. 62 (ill.). Robert Frank Storylines. London, 2004, p. 99 (ill.). "Sonderdruck Robert Frank." Neue Zurcher Zeitung (September 2005): 2 (ill.). Barr, Nancy. Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2010, p. inside cover (ill.). Auto Photo: Cars & Photography, 1900 to Now. Exh. cat., Fondation Cartier. Paris, 2017, p. 259 (ill.).

Robert Frank, Assembly Plant, Ford, Detroit, 1955, printed ca. 1960s, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Coville Photographic Fund, 1999.11.