Guggenheim 522--Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, Universal City, California 1956

Here's an audio guide script, in the style of Amy Sillman, about Robert Frank's "Guggenheim 522--Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, Universal City, California". This is a photo by Robert Frank, and it’s a strip of negatives. It's like he’s thinking through the looking glass… or maybe thinking about thinking through the looking glass, you know? He’s got these red grease pencil marks, right? Like he’s circling and underlining what matters. I imagine him there in the darkroom, hunched over, light glowing, looking for the *thing* in the thing. It’s dark, it’s contrasty, it’s grainy. It’s all about the feeling of the moment. The texture is less about the people and more about the film, the material. He’s not just taking pictures; he’s *seeing* with the camera, with the film itself. And the red marks! It’s like he’s arguing with himself, with the image, trying to wrangle meaning out of the mess of the world. I mean, isn’t that what we’re all trying to do, really? Frank's photographs still inspire a conversation, even now. It's like he is saying "look, look closely!".