- Artist or Maker
- Robert Frank
Switzerland, active United States, 1924-2019 - Title
- Restaurant, U.S. 1, Leaving Columbia, South Carolina
- Date Made
- 1955, printed later
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 8 3/4 × 13 in. (22.23 × 33.02 cm)
Primary support: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.78 × 35.24 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.81.294.11
- Collecting Area
- Photography
- Curatorial Notes
Robert Frank frames a portion of a restaurant, empty of customers, with an image from the television frozen in time. The uneven tilt of the camera creates a sense of restlessness, as if the photographer could not stay long enough to frame this scene carefully. The fleeting subject of the photograph is in competition with the radiant natural light glaring upon the tabletop, which overwhelms the new, artificial radiance of the television screen.
- Selected Bibliography
- Price, Lorna. Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.
- Phil Freshman. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Report, July 1, 1981-June 30, 1983. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
