Albert Einstein exceptional large format photograph signed ("A. Einstein. 49.") on the mat. Photo measures 10 x 13 in. (16 x 2...

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Albert Einstein exceptional large format photograph signed ("A. Einstein. 49.") on the mat. Photo measures 10 x 13 in. (16 x 20 in. including mat). Extraordinary oversize photograph signed ("A. Einstein, 49.") on the 16 x 20 in. photographer's mat beneath the 10 x 13 in. black & white silver gelatin waist-up portrait of the famous physicist wearing a cardigan sweater. Princeton-based photographer Alan Windsor Richards has signed on the lower right beneath the photograph. Photograph exhibits minor silvering on edges; mat has moderate toning with chipping on upper edge; mounting remnants on verso. Exceptional oversized portrait photograph signed by Albert Einstein, taken by Princeton photographer Alan Windsor Richards. Alan Windsor Richards was a freelance photographer known for the images he captured of people and events associated with Princeton University. Richards learned photography from Thomas Edison's personal photographer in exchange for giving the man, a Lithuanian, English lessons. At first, Richards treated photography as hobby, but around 1944, he applied for a position as a photographer in Princeton's Palmer Laboratory, which was then home to work being conducted under the Manhattan Project. The University hired Richards' for the position which concluded at the end of World War II. Richards then found steady employment doing freelance photography in the Princeton area. Some of Richards' most popular images are from his photo shoots with Albert Einstein; these include the last portrait of Einstein before his death and iconic images of Einstein walking between his home and his office at the Institute for Advanced Studies.