Broadway no number 1957

Robert Frank made this gelatin silver print, Broadway no number, at an unknown date. It’s a contact sheet, an array of photographic moments. I imagine Frank walking the city streets, camera in hand, navigating through crowds and capturing fragments of life as it unfolds. He’s in search of something real. There's something melancholic and observational about the work. The contrast between light and shadow gives it an almost dreamlike quality. Each frame feels like a fleeting glimpse into a different world. The use of the contact sheet is very cool. It’s a document of a process that other photographers might throw away. It provides a meta-commentary, an echo of earlier modernists like Moholy-Nagy, who was playing with the idea of photography as a series. Frank’s work reminds us that art is everywhere, it's up to us to see it, record it, and share it with others.