Four women before gate, Paris 1951

This black and white photograph by Robert Frank captures four women standing before a gate in Paris, sometime in the middle of the 20th Century. I look at these women and wonder what they’re thinking about, staring out from behind that beautiful wrought iron fence. They look like they're waiting, like maybe they do this every day. I like to think that the gate is a symbol for so many things. It divides, it separates, it protects. It could stand in for the limitations of life. You know, what we can and cannot do. Robert Frank was brilliant at capturing those in-between moments. The quiet ones. He finds poetry in everyday life. It’s not always pretty, but it’s real. The rough grain of the photo, the way the light hits their faces…it all tells a story. The women are looking but we cannot know what they are looking at. Frank’s images ask us to see the world with new eyes.