<note><![CDATA[© Robert Frank, courtesy of Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York]]></note>
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<title><![CDATA[The bus series]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[Frank became progressively frustrated by the fragmentary nature of the single image, its inability to sum up the complexity of a moment.<br>ΓÇ£I couldnΓÇÖt just depend on that one singular photograph any more. You have to develop; you have to go through different rooms.ΓÇ¥ Juxtaposition, repetition and sequencing in his books all attempted to go beyond the static snap. The bus series was his last before giving up photography. All the work was taken from inside a bus. Dramatically lit, anonymous figures run across New York streets, blurred in movement. Everything was in movement ΓÇô the bus, the subject, the camera. The writer Jack Kerouac, who once travelled to Florida by car with Frank, was stunned at the photographerΓÇÖs ability to create on the move. ΓÇ£ItΓÇÖs pretty amazing to see a guy, while steering at the wheel, suddenly raise his little $300 German camera with one hand and snap something thatΓÇÖs on the move in front of him, and through an unwashed windshield at that.ΓÇ¥ Many of the bus pieces were shown in groups of four, like a contact sheet, increasing the sense of a narrative. However, FrankΓÇÖs expression of time was poetic rather than linear. By 1959, he had abandoned photography for film.]]></body>
