Visiting the Robert Frank exhibition at the National Gallery was truly an enlightening experience. It felt so personal to be able to see his work and thought process up close. The amount of planning and thinking that went into organizing the sequencing, the amount of editing and care that went into each photograph, and the amount of decision making that was involved in producing The Americans shows the love and devotion that Robert Frank has for his work and his discipline. It was great to see each of the photographs blown up individually to draw attention to how each one can stand alone as well as in series. It was also really interesting to be able to see images and thinking from earlier projects that he had worked on prior to the completion of The Americans. I was able to see how everything that Robert Frank had done had helped him to create The Americans as well as how he had grown as a photographer. Seeing his thought process from his contact sheets was also incredible. It was so cool to see how he selected some images over others, how he cropped images, and burned and dodged to make the image better. In the end it was an amazing experience to see work that I have been so familiar with from learning about Robert Frank so up close and personal that it made the images new again to me.
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