From the bus 28 1958

Robert Frank made this contact sheet, “From the bus 28”, by pressing his negatives onto a sheet of photographic paper and exposing it to light. It's like he's showing us his working process, his way of seeing as a constant flow. The image is raw, unedited – we see the full strips of negatives, with all the marks, scratches, and imperfections. Look at how the light and shadow play across the surface, how the grit and grain of the film add to the texture. It’s not just about the subject matter, but about the feel of the city, the dirt and the energy. The red square around a frame hints at a moment he wanted to come back to, but everything here is a document of the spontaneous, the ephemeral. Like Garry Winogrand, Frank caught life as it happened, but with a bleaker, more personal edge. It's less about capturing a perfect image and more about the act of seeing, the journey of making art.