100 SURREAL STREET PHOTOGRAPHS - B&W

Koushik Sinha Roy (IN)
The contact sheet of a contact sheet
Robert Frank's "Trolley, New Orleans 1955" was indeed like a
contact sheet. A notion that in the digital era has only an
archival and historical use (if any). Frank's image was
presenting many different frames, stories, emotions put
together in a single shot. A political essay and statement on
the American society of segregation.
Koushik's picture is the most successful among any conscious
or subconscious replications of Frank's iconic picture I have
ever seen.
In addition, it is more honest with no declarations, no opinions
or judgments. Just observing without judging, dear to a
particular eastern philosophy!
Only one more thing I have to add. Robert Frank's picture was
a single shot! If we check out the 81 contact sheets from "The
Americans” the Trolley was a single shot, exposure 16, on an
ISO125 KODAK PLUS-X film!
And that shot was/is the favourite of hundreds of
photographers, it made the cover of the book. It made
Kerouac write about it.
STREET CORE PHOTOGRAPHY 2021
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