Andraitx, Spain 12/Lines of My Hand 36/Black White and Things 29 by Robert Frank

Andraitx, Spain 12/Lines of My Hand 36/Black White and Things 29 1952

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print, contact-print, photography, gelatin-silver-print

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film photography

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print

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landscape

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contact-print

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archive photography

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street-photography

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photography

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historical photography

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gelatin-silver-print

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film

Dimensions: overall: 21.8 x 24.8 cm (8 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

Copyright: National Gallery of Art: CC0 1.0

This is a photo contact sheet by Robert Frank. Look at all those little windows into the world – so many tiny images all lined up! What might he have been thinking as he snapped each shot? Was it a quest to capture something fleeting? Or just the pure joy of seeing? Frank probably walked the streets, camera in hand, framing his shots with an instinct for the raw and real. Think about him choosing each angle, each moment, letting the light and shadows tell their own stories. This piece is like a visual diary, a collection of whispers from a life lived in pictures. What does the sequencing tell us about his interests? And isn’t that what art is all about? It's about one artist's vision sparking something in another, years later. It's a beautiful thing, this conversation across time.

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