Men in interior--New Mexico 1955

Robert Frank shot this image of men in interior New Mexico, sometime in the mid-20th century with, I imagine, a handheld camera. Frank's photos, man, they've got this way of making you feel like you're right there in the moment, like you're standing in that room with those guys. You can almost smell the stale air and hear the quiet murmur of their conversation. Maybe they're talking about the weather, or maybe something deeper, who knows? I can’t help but think about the story behind it. The hat, the back of a head, a door with posters. Frank was always drawn to those overlooked corners of American life, the places where real people lived and worked, like in his book The Americans. And it makes you wonder what was going on in his own head at the time, what he was trying to capture with his camera. We artists, we're all just trying to make sense of the world in our own weird way, you know?