In April, we spent several days in Butte, Montana, staying in the hotel room Robert Frank occupied while he was traveling the country, making the photographs that became his landmark book, The Americans.
I brought three cameras on our trip: a 1933 Leica iii, fitted with a Nikkor 50 mm f1.4 (the same kit Robert used for his View From Hotel Window); a 1949 Leica iiic; a Leitz 90mm f4 lens; and a 1985 Hasselblad SWC.
Plus a bag full of Kodak Tri-X film.
The off-kilter shot here was taken in Room 904 at the Hotel Finlen using the Hasselblad. The window on the right in the reflection is THE window. And while I seriously doubt that this mirror was hanging during Robert’s stay, there’s really no harm in imagining that it was.
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Christopher Collins on Room 904 – My Photo of the Year 2026
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