Hollywood 75 1958

Robert Frank gifted us "Hollywood 75" as a photographic contact sheet, a series of black and white frames offering a glimpse into a particular moment, or maybe many moments, in Hollywood. I can imagine Frank in the darkroom, his hands moving with intention, perhaps circling some frames in red, maybe as a nod to what caught his eye, or what he wanted to remember from that moment of being. There's something really beautiful about the grid of frames, each holding a captured moment, and the marks he made on the film itself. You get the sense that the process is as much about the editing of images as the act of taking them. Frank is in conversation with his own work and his observations of Hollywood, inviting us to see what he sees, but also to bring our own experiences into the mix. In the end, it's this exchange, this dialogue, that keeps the conversation going and keeps the work alive.