[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 138 (Wednesday, September 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 28, 1994]
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 NEW EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART--``ROBERT FRANK: MOVING 
                                 OUT''

  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, it is a privilege to take this 
opportunity to commend the Polaroid Corp. of Cambridge, MA, for its 
sponsorship, along with the Lannan Foundation, of the exhibition about 
to open this weekend at the National Gallery of Art, entitled, ``Robert 
Frank: Moving Out.''
  The exhibition opens on Sunday, October 2, and it celebrates the life 
and work of Robert Frank, one of America's greatest living 
photographers. It marks the first time that the gallery has held an 
exhibition commemorating the work of a living photographer.
  Frank's highly stylized and dramatic images portray a wide range of 
American experience and have had a lasting influence on American 
photography.
  It is fitting that the Polaroid Corp. is participating in the 
sponsorship of this exhibition For many years, Polaroid has been a 
household name symbolizing excellence in photography. Over the years, 
Polaroid has worked closely with America's great photographers, and 
those artists have worked closely with Polaroid scientists, helping to 
generate new advances in the art and technology of photography. As a 
result, Polaroid is renowned as a leader in such diverse fields as 
computer imaging, medical diagnostics, and fine arts restoration, in 
addition to commercial and popular photography.
  Because of this exhibition, the powerful photography of Robert Frank 
will be seen by thousands of individuals who otherwise would not have 
had the opportunity. The exhibition will be at the National Gallery in 
Washington until December. It will then travel to Japan, Switzerland, 
and the Netherlands, and will return in 1996 to the Whitney Museum of 
American Art in New York City and then to the Lannan Foundation in Los 
Angeles. I know that the exhibition will be acclaimed in the Nation's 
Capital and in all the other places where it travels, and I 
congratulate all those who are a part of it.

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