Robert Frank, “Elevator, Miami Beach”, 1955, Gelatin silver print
Photographer Robert Frank was born today, November 9th, in 1924. The image above, Elevator, Miami Beach, was part of his famous and influential book, The Americans, and was included in Brandywine Museum of Art’s 2025 exhibition, Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955.
From the museum about this work:
Uninterested in straight-forward or simplistic images, Robert Frank noted, “When people look at my pictures, I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” This photograph of a young elevator operator dreamily gazing into space while people rush past invites a reconsideration of the everyday moments and interactions that, like the mixture of words in a poem, attempt to express human nature.