Guggenheim 48--Pennsylvania 1955

Robert Frank made "Guggenheim 48--Pennsylvania" with gelatin silver print. Look at these strips of negatives, contact sheets almost, little windows into Frank's journey through Pennsylvania. I imagine him in his car, the world unfolding through the windshield, framing fleeting moments. The road stretching on. What was it like to be Frank, traveling, seeing, trying to capture America? I think about how you can follow his thought process, his curiosity, in the arrangement of these frames. Look at the grainy texture, the stark contrast, the way the light flares. It's like he’s trying to nail down something elusive. It's a conversation between what he saw, what he felt, and what the camera could capture. Each shot is like a painter's mark, a gesture that tells a story. Like, you could almost say that Frank was using the camera to paint the USA. He wasn’t the first, and he won't be the last. We all learn from each other, right?