Frank Paulin

(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1926 - 2016)

Untitled [Man Looking at Camera]

c. 1956

Silver gelatin print

13 7/8 x 10 15/16 in. (35.3 x 27.7 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of Bruce and Silke Winter-Silverstein

2023.10.10

Owned by Bruce Silverstein / Frank Paulin Archive

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12 black and white photographs, all but one are from the 1950s. Most of the images are street scenes of people in New York City. His work can be compared to the photography of Walker Evans, Vivian Maier and Arthur Leipzig. His street photography practice combined photo-journalism, social documentary photography and modernism to explore life on the streets in major cities.