NPR recently aired a short segment about a photo by Robert Frank that appeared in his book, The Americans. In the introduction, Frank’s friend Jack Kerouac fixed upon a certain image and wrote: “That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?”
The elevator girl had no idea that she was the subject of a well-known image by a famous photographer. That discovery came years later -- approximately 10 years ago -- when she saw the photo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. After staring at the image for several minutes, she recognized herself -- Sharon Goldstein, at age 15, working a summer job in a Miami Beach hotel.
Elevator girl is now Sharon Collins, and to learn more about her unusual story, please click here.
The Americans, by Robert Frank
Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” -- the 50th anniversary companion book to an exhibition commemorating “The Americans” at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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