Venice, Italy 17 1964

Robert Frank made this photograph, Venice, Italy 17, by exposing the film in a camera and then, like a painter, making choices on the surface. I wonder what Frank was thinking as he arranged these strips? I see the red square he drew around one of the frames, it is like a painter circling an area in a composition they want to focus on. It is like a cartoonish decision. Here, Frank is dealing with time and memory, as well as the two-dimensional surface of the image. I like the film grain and its relationship to the half-tones and details of the image. The process reminds me of the editing process in film, it is intimate yet removed, the sum of many gestures.