Robert Frank, inquisitive private look not unkind, patient, "Maybe I could show you something too." Kiev Restaurant, 2'nd Avenue & 7th Street, March 7, 1984.

Gary S. Davis Allen Ginsberg

1984

Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 18.5 x 27.6 cm (7 5/16 x 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.9 x 35.3 cm (11 x 13 7/8 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US

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