Group leaving church--Iowa 1956

This is Group leaving church--Iowa, by Robert Frank. It's a black and white photograph printed on a small sheet. I can imagine Frank, with his camera, hanging out on a Sunday, feeling like an outsider, or maybe just feeling curious about what goes on in small-town America. This is a slice of life, right? People dressed in their Sunday best, leaving church, all in a line, like a procession. The light is flat, but the way he frames it, there's a kind of energy, a feeling of movement. I wonder if he was thinking about Walker Evans when he made this? Or maybe he was just trying to capture something real, something honest about America. I think it's cool how artists can be in conversation with each other, even across time, you know? Like, they're all part of this big, messy, beautiful conversation about what it means to be alive, and what it means to see.