From the bus 63 by Robert Frank

From the bus 63 1958

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contact-print, photography

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landscape

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contact-print

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street-photography

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photography

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genre-painting

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realism

Dimensions overall: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Robert Frank made this photographic work, "From the bus 63", and it's like looking at someone else's contact sheet – all these little worlds captured in monochrome. I see a kind of diary, maybe thoughts running through his head as he looked out of that bus window. Each frame seems to hold a different mood or fragment of a story. There are glimpses of daily life, street scenes, and intimate moments, all mashed up together. I feel the artist was like a hunter, tracking down something real and true. I see a relationship between the mundane and the momentous, like he’s saying, “Hey, look at this! This matters, too.” It’s almost like flicking through TV channels – how do all these different images relate? And what does it all mean?

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