Robert Frank
Plates contributed
The 7 plates attributed to Robert Frank in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0031 | USA | Marriage and childbirth | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0037 | USA | Marriage and childbirth | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0244 | USA | Eating and everyday life | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0310 | Spain | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0365 | Peru | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0375 | Wales | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0380 | England | Hardship, suffering, and war | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Seven plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-07): photo-0031 (Pregnancy, USA), photo-0037 (Pregnancy, USA), photo-0244 (Food, USA), photo-0310 (Relationships, Spain), photo-0365 (Aloneness and Compassion, Peru), photo-0375 (Aspirations, Wales), photo-0380 (Hard Times, England). All seven plates credited ‘Swiss’ in the MoMA Master Checklist (Frank had not yet naturalized as US citizen in 1955; the post-1955 naturalization year is NOT verified against any fetched source this round). Born 1924 per src-icp-frank-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-07; ICP page predates Frank’s 2019 death and gives no death date). The November 9, 1924 / September 9, 2019 day-month tokens, the Zurich birthplace, and the Inverness/Cape Breton (Nova Scotia) deathplace token carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-frank-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-07). Canonical ‘Swiss-American’ nationality form follows scholarly convention and src-wikipedia-frank-pointer; the MoMA Master Checklist credit ‘Swiss’ reflects 1955-era citizenship. Pre-Americans assignments — geographic distribution USA/Spain/Peru/Wales/England in FoM corresponds to his early-1950s freelance period for LIFE/Look/Charm/Vogue per src-icp-frank-archive (verbatim: ‘Between 1950 and 1955 he worked freelance producing photojournalism and advertising photographs for LIFE, Look, Charm, Vogue, and others’). The canonical Americans road-trip imagery (1955–56) was not yet assembled at FoM’s January 1955 opening. ICP page names Edward Steichen, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Walker Evans as Frank’s American supporters (per WebFetch summary 2026-05-07; the specific full sentence is paraphrased from the ICP page surrounding paragraph rather than quoted verbatim).
External biography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/robert-frank
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