Guggenheim 570--Los Angeles 1955 - 1956

Robert Frank made this photographic contact sheet, Guggenheim 570—Los Angeles. It’s a peek into his process, a series of frames laid out like a storyboard for a film that never was. The stark black and white hits you first, but then you notice the graininess. It's raw, like a document or report of sorts. Look closely at the sequence of frames, it seems like he captured kids playing, kids moving, kids just being kids. There is a freedom in the way he composes his frames, focusing less on perfection and more on capturing life as it unfolds. The light and shadow play, revealing the physicality of the world through the medium of film. Frank isn't afraid to leave the edges rough, it makes me think of the work of Garry Winogrand or Diane Arbus, fellow photographers who found beauty in the everyday. Art's not about getting it right, it's about seeing the world in a new way.