Early New York City 5 c. 1949 - 1950

This is a sheet of film that Robert Frank used, probably while wandering around New York, trying to capture the feel of the city. I look at this and think about how he must have been walking around, his camera up to his eye, trying to find something to grab onto, something to express what it felt like to be alive then. I imagine him moving and prowling like a cat, trying to capture something real. It's interesting that he left all the images together like this. I wonder why he chose these frames? Was he telling a story? Or was he just trying to show us what it was like to see? I love the picture of the guy in the window, it feels a bit like a Weegee photo. Frank was an important artist, he was in conversation with other photographers like Walker Evans, and artists that came after him like Nan Goldin. It's kind of him to let us see how he worked.