This image appears in the photographer’s first planned book of photographs, Black White and Things. Illustrated with actual photographs, and produced in an edition of only 3 maquettes, 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. ‘Doll/New York’ (here titled ‘San Gennaro Festival’) appears in the Things section, along with similarly evocative photographs of a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, a table by the sea in Mallorca, and a horse-drawn cart in Paris. Black White and Things was formally published in 1994 by the National Gallery of Art from Frank’s original 1952 maquette.