Central casting--Hollywood 67 1958

Robert Frank’s Central casting--Hollywood 67 is a series of black and white photographs on film. I imagine Frank prowling around Hollywood, looking for the real people, not the stars, catching the in-between moments. The series feels like a storyboard, but for a movie that never was, or maybe it’s a record of all the possibilities, the what-ifs of casting. There’s a red ‘X’ scrawled across a frame, marking a decision, a path not taken. I think about the push and pull of choices, how one decision leads to another, like laying down colors on a canvas. Each photograph a layer, a moment, building up to something…but what? I love how Frank invites us into the messy, unglamorous side of Hollywood. It’s a reminder that art, like life, is full of auditions, rejections, and the quiet moments in between.