Elevator-Time Machine?
Elevator—Miami Beach, 1955; gelatin silver print; 12 3/8 × 18 13/16 in.; Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art, purchased with funds contributed by Dorothy Norman, 1969; © Robert FrankAs I was reading about the photographer Robert Frank, I came across this article that tells a remarkable story about the girl in Frank’s famous photograph ‘Elevator - Miami Beach, 1955’. Jack Kerouac wrote of this girl in his introduction to ‘The Americans’: “That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?”.Photographers don’t write down the names of all the people they photograph, so Kerouac did never find out her name. He would have now though, 50 years later…