40 Fotos, page 16 1946

This photograph, page 16 from ‘40 Fotos,’ by Robert Frank, presents three eggs in stark black and white. Just eggs, right? But I'm thinking about the simple act of placing them, of arranging them. The light is hitting them in a way that is so… particular. It’s like Frank is asking us: What do you see when you really look? I wonder what he was thinking. Was he contemplating the fragility of life, or just playing with form and light? Maybe he was thinking about other photographers or painters, like Weston, or Morandi. There's a conversation across time, artists riffing off each other's ideas, seeing things in new ways. Photography is a kind of painting. It's about making choices, framing, and letting something emerge that wasn't there before. Even with something as everyday as eggs.