Guggenheim 669--Reno, Nevada 1956

Robert Frank made this, Guggenheim 669--Reno, Nevada, out of gelatin silver print. It is a photographic film strip of images of Reno that Frank captured over a period of time. You see the world shift in tone and subject as you look at the individual images. The outside and inside swap, as if Frank were working to know and understand a place. I can only imagine him walking through Reno, maybe on assignment, maybe just curious, making the city visible in his pictures. The ordinary becomes a site of inquiry. I love how the light changes and alters. It reminds me of how the Abstract Expressionists worked as they took their ideas of place from outside, and transported them inside. This is a different medium, but Frank uses photography as a way of thinking about space, light, and place just as the abstract expressionists used paint.