Gelatin silver print, probably printed 1960s.

1952

Image: 15.9 x 23.1 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

Credited, titled ‘The Youths’, dated, annotated ‘Return to Robert Kirschenbaum’ in unidentified hands in pencil and ‘Owner Sasaki Kon’ by Sasaki, Kimura’s first pupil, in Japanese in red pencil, all on the verso.

As of this writing, this work is one of only five known extant early prints of Kimura’s most iconic image. Three of the prints reside in institutional collections – Museum of Modern Art, NY; Société Française de Photographie, Paris; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo – and another was sold at auction in 2009.