Andreas Feininger
The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock)
1951
Gelatin silver print, printed before 1967. 28.8 x 22.4 cm. The photographer's typewritten adress label with the mention 'For the exhibition: The Camera as Witness 67', thereon numbered '1955' in crayon, inscribed in pencil in an unknown hand 'The photographer', number stamp '8' and stamp '1955' on the verso. - Slight oxidation mirroring. The upper corners each with tiny pinhole. Matted.
The portrait of his colleague Dennis Stock, titled 'The Photojournalist', is considered to be one of Feininger's most famous shots. The presented work was most probably printed in direct connection with the EXPO exhibition 'The Camera as Witness' in Montreal in 1967, where this photograph was shown (cat.no. 8). An international commission of experts to which, among others, Robert Doisneau, L. Fritz Gruber, Yousuf Karsh, and Beaumont Newhall belonged, had made its choice of 500 photographs, divided into 49 categories - out of 40.000 works submitted by photographers and agencies from all over the world. The present copy's inscription 'The Photographer' refers to the category of the same name within the exhibition, which at the same time constituted the prelude of the exhibition.
Literature
Robert Doisneau, L. Fritz Gruber, Yousuf Karsh, Beaumont Newhall (ed.), Expo 67. International Exhibition of Photography. The Camera as Witness, exhib.cat. Montreal, Toronto 1967, plate 8.
Exhibitions
Montreal 1967 (Expo), International Exhibition of Photography. The Camera as Witness