To Robert Frank I now give you 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? - Jack Kerouac, intro to Robert Frank’s The Americans
I guess it’s The American’s week for me here at thedreambeing but let’s face it.. what week am I not obsessing over Robert Frank’s iconic photographs? Today I came across a story brought to me by NPR unveiling the identity of ‘that little old lonely elevator girl’ check it out here!
Robert Frank, Elevator- Miami Beach 1955
Ms. COLLINS: I think he saw in me something that most people didn’t see. You know, I have a big smile and a big laugh. So people see, you know, one thing in me. And I suspect that somehow Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac saw something that was deeper that only people who were really close to me can see, and it’s not necessarily loneliness, it’s, I don’t know, dreaminess.
