From the bus 28 1958

Robert Frank's photographic contact sheet, "From the bus 28," captures snippets of city life through the fleeting lens of a bus window. I imagine Frank, eyes peeled, reacting to the urban theater unfolding outside; each frame a chance encounter, a potential story. The gritty black and white tonality speaks of a no-frills, direct approach, like a visual diary jotted down on the go. There's a raw quality to the composition, the off-kilter angles, the blur of motion, all adding to the sense of immediacy. I think of other image-makers, like Garry Winogrand, who embraced the chaos of the street, turning the everyday into something monumental. Frank’s work, like painting, is an embodied expression, and resonates with the spirit of experimentation and chance. It reveals something about the world, and even more about the artist's interior world.