Guggenheim 547--Los Angeles 1955 - 1956

Robert Frank captured "Guggenheim 547--Los Angeles" with his camera, a series of images on a film strip, somewhere in L.A. The raw, grainy texture of the black and white film gives this such an intimate feel. It's like he's not just showing us a picture, but also revealing the behind-the-scenes of photography. You know? I mean, he literally shows us the filmstrip itself, kind of like an abstract composition of light and dark rectangles, with these little windows into different scenes. I'm drawn to the top row, the way the light bleeds into the images, blurring the edges of the figures. There is something about how the eye moves over the image, taking in the whole strip and the individual images that feels like the same way I approach a canvas: as a surface, as a composition. Frank reminds me a little bit of Garry Winogrand; that same kind of snapshot aesthetic. It's this idea that art isn't about perfection, it's about the process, the moment. And that's something I can definitely get behind.