My Family/New York--Children and family 1A/Lines of My Hand 17/Black White and Things 13 1951

This is Robert Frank's filmstrip, shot somewhere, sometime, with his camera, and it looks like it's contact-printed on paper. I love seeing a filmstrip like this. It feels so raw and process-oriented, right? The high contrast, the way the edges of the filmstrip are visible, it's all about the materiality of photography. You get this sense of Frank's hand in it, his choices. There's a real intimacy to this piece, like we're peeking into his personal life, his family, maybe even his mind. Look at the sequence in the middle. A child, a cat, some food. It's like he's trying to capture a fleeting moment, a feeling. The graininess of the image adds to that sense of immediacy, like he's just grabbed a quick snapshot. It reminds me a bit of Garry Winogrand's street photography, that same off-the-cuff, slice-of-life vibe. And just like a Winogrand, this piece embraces the ambiguity, the messiness of life. It's not about perfection; it's about capturing a feeling, a mood, a moment in time.