Weekend at Uribe's house no number 1953

This is Robert Frank’s ‘Weekend at Uribe's house no number’ a photographic contact sheet, just shy of A4. I can imagine Frank at Uribe’s house, camera in hand, looking for images, a few friends hanging out, taking pictures, talking, trying to forget themselves. The dark and light tones of the photographs create high contrast. There are five strips, all arranged and stuck on a larger piece of paper like tape. The physicality of the object, the surface and the texture it creates tells a story of time and place. Frank was part of a generation of artists looking to tell a story through fragmented images. Much like painting, photography here is a form of embodied expression, embracing ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.