Two images of smiling man looking up, 1933

HOMER PAGE (1918–1985)
Two images of smiling man looking up, 1933

(i)
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed c.1955
credited and numbered 'Exh. #388' in pencil with Museum of Modern Art Photography Department Study Collection stamp and Family of Man exhibition stamp (flush mount, verso)
image: 10 1/8 x 6 3/4 in. (25.7 x 17.1 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 10 1/4 x 7 in. (26 x 17.7 cm.)
This is print was made for publicity related to the exhibition Family of Man presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1955. Throughout the history of the Museum’s Photography Department, primarily from the 1930s through the 1970s, photographers contributing works to exhibitions would oftentimes provide the Museum with multiple prints of the works selected for exhibition. These additional prints would be used for various exhibition-related affairs, most often for being sent to the press for publicity. Such prints were sometimes provided by the photographer and other times printed at the Museum from original negatives.

(ii)
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed by 1949
credited in red pencil and titled in pencil with Museum of Modern Art Photography Department Study Collection stamp (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 6 5/8 x 4 3/8 in. (16.8 x 11 cm.)
mount: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.5 cm.)
Acquired from the artist, 1949.