Raoul Hague 6 1962

Robert Frank made this photographic artwork, "Raoul Hague 6," using black and white film, and you know, there's this contact sheet quality to it that really grabs me. I’m picturing Frank in the darkroom, hunched over, the red light casting a glow as he coaxes these images into being. He’s thinking about Raoul Hague, the sculptor, and I can feel Frank trying to understand Hague’s process, his space, his energy. It’s a beautiful, intimate look at Hague at work. The high contrast and the graininess give it this raw, immediate feel. There's a lot of visual conversation going on here, like the time Frank spent with Hague was a collaboration. It’s about seeing how another artist makes things, right? Like, what are they thinking? How can I, through my work, understand that? That's what it's all about.