Convention 7 1956

Robert Frank made this contact sheet, "Convention 7", using photography. Here's a peek into Frank’s world— a series of frames, each capturing a slice of a political convention. Look at the way he plays with light and shadow. It's grainy, raw, and real. You can almost hear the echoes of the crowd, the speeches, the sheer energy of the place. I imagine Frank moving through the space, his camera a kind of third eye, darting here and there, searching for something authentic amidst all the staged moments. He wasn’t just documenting; he was feeling it, processing the scene through his own lens. What was he looking for? Frank's work reminds me that as artists we are constantly in conversation with each other, building on what’s come before, reacting against it, pushing the boundaries of how we see and represent the world.