Buildings and church spire--Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1955

This image is a photograph of buildings and a church spire in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by Robert Frank. Looking at this image, I'm thinking about the way one thing obscures another. You see the rooftops, these flat planes, and the church spire lurking way back there. Frank’s compositions were never straightforward. He was interested in the in-between moments, the stuff you might miss if you weren't paying attention. I wonder what Frank was thinking when he made this photograph? Was he trying to find beauty in the mundane, or was he trying to show us something about the way we see the world? I'm sympathetic to his attempt to distill something essential from the everyday. Artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time. They inspire one another’s creativity. It’s an embodied expression that embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.