This photograph was originally in the collection of Werner Zryd, a Swiss graphic designer with a long association with Robert Frank. Zryd was the designer of Frank’s 1952 maquette, Black White and Things. Illustrated with actual photographs, and produced in an edition of only 3, Black White and Things represented a deepening of Frank’s understanding of presenting images in a sequence and is a direct precursor to his masterwork, The Americans, produced later in the decade. The book is broken into three sections indicated by the title, and the image offered here is plate 25 in the Things section. In the book it is given the alternate title Men of Air/New York, and appears across the page spread from an image of a Catholic festival in Spain entitled Men of Wood/Malaga. As of this writing, it is believed that a print of this image has never before appeared at auction.