Opening last week at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art [1], is an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Robert Frank’s seminal book of photography, The Americans [2]. After emigrating from Switzerland in 1947, Frank achieved considerable success as a commercial photographer, particularly in fashion, working for Harper’s Bazaar. With a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, in 1955, he spent three years traveling by car across America to document a post-World War II society.
This photo, “Elevator, Miami Beach, ” is one of 83 in the SF MOMA exhibition, “Looking In: Robert Frank’s: The Americans,” which runs through August 23.