Monday, August 24, 2009

Elevators, Americans, Missed Connections


Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.

To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.

And I say: That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?” - closing words of Jack Kerouac’s introduction to Robert Frank’s book of photographs, The Americans.

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