Houses and Billboards in Atlanta, 1936

The present lot is a print made for publicity related to the second edition of American Photographs published in 1962, originally published on the occasion of the exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1938. 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 or printed at the Museum from original negatives.