Must See: Last Days for ‘The Americans’ – Lens

Must See: Last Days for ‘The Americans’

The five-exposure contact strip of 35-millimeter Kodak Plus-X film begins unremarkably enough. But don’t miss Frame 16. And don’t miss this show.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/must-32/

The five-exposure contact strip of 35-millimeter Kodak Plus-X film begins unremarkably enough. Frame 12: Helmeted policemen gather around a motorcycle. Frame 13: Pedestrians move one way or the other on the sidewalk. (Not bad. Some promise there.) Frame 14: A woman and children gaze up at something above them. Frame 15: Well-dressed shoppers appear to be peering into a store window.

And then, suddenly, there’s Frame 16.