London Tate will present a collection of photographs worth more than a million pounds
Collection of Frank spouses to double the current fotofondy gallery
BRUCE DAVIDSON
Girl with a kitten. 1960
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collectors Eric and Louise Franck (Eric and Louise Franck) will give the museum a large collection of photos of the Tate. This unique collection of quality photo images of London includes classical works by Henri Cartier-Bresson (Henri Cartier-Bresson), Robert Frank (Robert Frank), and Irving Penn (Irving Penn). Part of the collection will be presented to the Tate Museum in the exhibition "Another London", which opens to the public July 27, 2012.
couple gathered a unique collection of more than 20 years, there are about 1400 works by 120 authors on all types of images imprinted in London from 1880 until the 2000s. As a gift to the Tate Museum Frank's family, bringing in about two thirds of its unique collection worth more than a million pounds - is the largest photographic gift in the history of the Tate, which intends to acquire the remainder of the collection.
Collection by Eric Frank and Louise more than double the museum's photographic collection of the distinguished. Its main gem - the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson "The Trafalgar Square in anticipation of the parade on the occasion of the coronation of George VI» 1937, the work of Bruce Davidson (Bruce Davidson) «Girl with Kitten" in 1962, Elliott Erwitt work (Elliot Erwitt) «Bus Stop London "in 1962, the work of Robert Frank's" London (child running away from the hearse) "in 1951 and the work of Irving Penn's" London cleaners "in 1950. The collection presents a wide variety of equipment: tsianotipiya, albumen prints, gelatin silver prints and color printing.
Eric Frank, a 1994 London gallery owned by Eric Franck Fine Art, which focuses mainly on photography of the twentieth fotoliteraturoy century, and from 1982 to 1994, Frank owned a gallery Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva. Frank Martin's sister was married to Henri Cartier-Bresson, and currently is an advisor Eric Frank Foundation in Paris, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Wife of Eric Frank, Louise - journalist, author of two books on photography, is currently working on a third - of the Dutch photographer Amy Andriessen (Emmy Andriesse).
Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI
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