The Reverend Frank Elmore Jump was born in Lakewood, Ohio, on January 23, 1938, to Beverly (Al) Elmore Jump and Alvera Louisa Tvedt Jump. He attended Lakewood High School, where he was a member of the ...

For more than 20 years photographer Frank Jump has been documenting New York’s fading ads. Slowly vanishing signs of yesteryear, The Omega Oil sign, on Frederick Douglas and 145th, that started it all ...

Frank Jump is one of those people who is impossible to describe in a title, a sentence or even a full paragraph. He is an urban archeologist whose photographs of fading advertisements have brought him ...

Throughout the city, Frank Jump sees what others don’t. He sees ghost signs — those ads painted on the sides of buildings that retreat from the eye as time passes — and they leap out at him. Then he ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link In 1997, Frank Jump began photographing fading, painted ad murals on the sides of old New York buildings as part of a project for a documentary ...

Photographer Frank Jump documents NYC's "ghost signs." In 1986, when Frank Jump was 26 years old, he was diagnosed as HIV positive. It was a time when doctors still knew little of the disease. They ...

Pomeroy Ad on Livingston Street in Brooklyn selling, among other things, artificial legs. (Courtesy Frank Jump). The Observer: You said at the lecture that most of the photos that made it into your ...