Horses--Farming 1941 - 1945

Robert Frank made this gelatin silver print, “Horses—Farming,” and I can only imagine him holding the camera up, framing the shot, and capturing the working horses. The horses are close together, and it makes me wonder if Frank was thinking about a team, about labor, about the partnership between animals and humans. I mean, look at the horses’ faces! They're stoic but also kinda beautiful. You can almost feel the weight of their work, the sun on their backs. It's honest, you know? Like, this is what it is to live and work on the land. Frank was all about capturing these kinds of raw, unvarnished moments. I feel a kinship, as a painter, in trying to show something real. I'm always interested in how the artist sees the world and transforms it through a gesture of the hand, or in Frank’s case, the click of a shutter.