I love it when Anthony Lane writes about photography, as I have mentioned (possibly several times) before. This week’s New Yorker has a lovely piece: Road Show: The journey of Robert Frank’s “The Americans.”
Robert Frank. Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey 1955
That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?
- Jack Kerouac, from his introduction to Robert Frank’s The Americans
Robert Frank
Collins poses in a recreation of the photo, 50 years later. Ian Padgham/SFMOMA
Here is a lovely short piece on NPR about a woman who recognized herself in a Robert Frank photograph, decades later.