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SIGNED BY FRANK FRANK, ROBERT. The Americans. With the introduction by Jack Kerouac. Illustrated with reproductions of Frank's iconic photographs of America. Oblong 4to, silver-stamped black boards; photo-pictorial dust jacket, just faintly soiled. signed and inscribed by robert frank, "in memory of a 'crazy kid' in 1954" to a subject of one of the photographs. (New York): Aperture, (1978)
In the Introduction, Kerouac writes, "After seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing any more whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin." On page 30, the small head of a boy pokes up behind a group of kids gathered around a juke box in a candy store ("Candy Store--New York City"), listening to "Earth Angel" by the Penguins and "Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight" by the Spaniels. That night, this boy noticed the stranger, a guy with a camera, in their midst, and ran out on the street after him, pestering the guy about his camera and photography. In his remembrance, included with this lot, Dennis John Ferado writes that Frank said, "It's not how much you pay for a camera that makes a good photographer. It's being able to see something that no one else can see, even when they're looking at the same thing you're looking at." Ferado continued to see Frank's work throughout his life (including this particular image), and later, in 2002, he reached out to the photographer to tell him that he still remembered that night, and the impression he left on a small boy. Frank graciously offered to sign this book. Ferado's poetic, detailed account of his impressions of Frank, and New York City in the 1950s, is laid in with the title. Frank's inscription appears on the title page.
