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The photographer's typewritten adress label with the mention 'For the exhibition: The Camera as Witness 67', thereon dated in crayon, inscribed in pencil in an unknown hand 'The photographer', number stamp '8' and date stamp '1955' on the verso.The portrait of his colleague Dennis Stock, titled 'The Photojournalist', is considered to be one of Feininger's most famous shots. The present print is the one that was shown at the Expo exhibition 'The Camera as Witness' in Montreal in 1967 (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.