11th Street story 3/People You Don't See 16 1951

Robert Frank made this contact sheet called '11th Street story 3/People You Don't See 16' with a camera, lens, and of course, film. I imagine Robert Frank walking the streets of New York, framing these shots, sometimes candid, sometimes posed. The city becomes his studio, and the people, the buildings, the light—they’re all his materials. I wonder what he was thinking when he captured these moments. The grain, the contrast, the way the images are organized on the sheet, it’s like he’s composing a visual poem. You can almost feel the city's rhythm, and the way he strings the images, it's like he wants us to see the world as he sees it, raw, immediate, and full of stories. It reminds me of other photographers and filmmakers, all trying to capture fleeting moments of life in their own way.