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[ BOOK LIVES ] The Americans List

Sunday is a good day to organize the bookshelves. It’s also a good day to sit down with one crazy book.

And today, I want to pay homage to a mad writer/photographer who did something I would have loved to have done myself.

Working as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum in New York when the Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans was staged, Jason Eskenazi decided to speak to photographers and editors visiting the exhibition and asked them which is his/her favorite picture from The Americans.

How cool is that right?

To paraphrase the words Jack Kerouac used in one of the most important books in photography, I want to say to Eskenazi, “You’ve got balls, brain and heart.”

By The Glow of the Jukebox: The Americans List
by Jason Eskenazi
Red Hook Editions
ISBN 978-0-9841954-8-0