CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/8/2014

Robert Frank

"What a poem this is, what poems can be written about a book of pictures some day by some young new writer high by candlelight bending over them describing every gray mysterious detail, the gray film that caught the actual pink juice of human kind. Whether 't is the milk of human kindness, Shakespeare meant, makes no difference when ou look at these pictures. Better than a show." On the occasion of Nicholas Dawidoff's profile in the New York Times Magazine, "Movie Premiere, Hollywood" (1956) and this excerpt from Jack Kerouac's 1959 Introduction are reproduced from Frank's seminal first photography book, The Americans. "The humor, the sadness, the EVERYTHING-ness and American-ness of these pictures!" Kerouac wrote. "Tall thin cowboy rolling butt outside Madison Garden New York for rodeo season, sad, spindly, unbelievable…" For more information, continue to our Robert Frank page. To learn more about Frank's publisher, continue to the Steidl website.