Paul Outerbridge, Jr.

platinum print, 1922 (Singular Aesthetic, pl. 114; Command Performance, pl. 8; Photographs, p. 79; Taschen, p. 51)

This print, on medium-weight paper with a matte surface and cool tonal range, is in generally excellent condition. There is very light soiling at the print's edges.
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Other prints of the image offered here are in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Library of Congress, a gift of the photographer's widow Lois in 1959; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. 

The print in the Library of Congress is accompanied by the following note:

'Cheese and Crackers illustrates the design possibilities in very simple every-day objects to be found by anyone anywhere.  Copies of this composition are in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum, N. Y., The Boston Museum, and others.  It has been exhibited and reproduced in art magazines all over the world.'