11th Street story 17 1951

Robert Frank’s ‘11th Street Story 17’ is a photo strip, contact sheet, or maybe a series of stills. A street story, maybe, or a non-story story—just a moment captured in time. I imagine Frank on 11th street, camera in hand, trying to capture a feeling, like a painter searching for the right colour. You know, that exact hue that conveys what you need to say. He's moving and waiting, experimenting with framing and composition. There’s an intuition to photography, a dance between intention and accident, just like painting. I love how the film strip itself becomes part of the image. It’s like the raw edge of a canvas, revealing the process. A snippet of a larger narrative, it invites us to fill in the blanks, to imagine the before and after. Painters and photographers, we're all just trying to make sense of the world, one frame or brushstroke at a time, sharing notes with each other in a visual language that transcends time.