Guggenheim 672--Reno to Elko, Nevada 1956

This is Robert Frank's "Guggenheim 672--Reno to Elko, Nevada", a series of moments captured on film. Look at the grays, the contrasts. I imagine Frank driving, seeing, feeling, and reaching for his camera—each frame a kind of breath. I feel his restlessness, his curiosity about America, and the people he encountered. Maybe he was thinking about Walker Evans, or maybe he was just in the zone, responding to what was in front of him. There’s something so physical about film, the act of winding, snapping, developing. That darkroom work, the choosing, cropping, sequencing, is a kind of painting. You see the world through a frame, like a viewfinder, deciding what to include, what to leave out. It’s all about decisions, right? Painters and photographers, we're all just trying to make sense of things, one image at a time. It's an ongoing conversation.