Lena is through working. It is 3 PM and she will soon go home., 1951

Not on View

series Title

People You Don't See

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 23.5 x 34.1 cm (9 1/4 x 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank

Accession Number

1990.28.19

Artists / Makers

Robert Frank (artist) American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

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Copyright

Inscription

on verso, Life magazine label, upper left typed in black ink: LIFE CONTEST ENTRY NO. [by artist in green ink: 507] / NAME [by artist in green ink: Robert Frank] / ADDRESS / STREET CITY STATE [by artist, above in green ink: 53 EAST 11th Str. N.Y.C.] / IF WITH U.S. ARMED FORCES, WRITE SERVICE ADDRESS BELOW / TITLE OF PICTURE (OR STORY) [by artist in green ink: People you don't see] / WHERE TAKEN [by artist in green ink: 11th Street] WHEN [by artist in green ink: August 51] / TYPE OF CAMERA USED [by artist in green ink: Leica] / CAPTION MATERIALS / [by artist in green ink: Lena is through working. It is / 3 PM and she will soon go home.] / IF INDIVIDUAL PICTURE CHECK HERE / IF PICTURE STORY THIS IS NUMBER [by artist in green ink: 12] IN STORY [by artist in green ink: 1]; Life magazine label, upper center printed in white ink: THIS PRINT WAS PRESENTED / FOR FINAL JUDGING IN THE / [LIFE magazine logo] LIFE / [in black ink] CONTEST FOR / YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS; by unknown hand, lower right in red ink perpendicular and underlined: 9; typed in black ink on applied label across bottom inverted: Lena is through working. It is 3 PM and she will soon go home.

Provenance

The artist, New York; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Frank, Robert

Exhibition History

2010: Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-59, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 2010, no. 38.