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A special 1925-1926 Packard sport phaeton is shown off at the 26th National Automobile Show, Grand Central Palace, January 9–16, 1926.
Photo: Nathan Lazarnick via Wayne State Univ./DPLA
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A special 1925-1926 Packard sport phaeton is shown off at the 26th National Automobile Show, Grand Central Palace, January 9–16, 1926.
Photo: Nathan Lazarnick via Wayne State Univ./DPLA
Telephone operators at the NY Telephone Company (AT&T), ca. 1930.
Photo: Nathan Lazarnick for the NY Telephone Co. via MCNY
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Nathan Lazarnick Advertisement for Sanka Coffee c. 1934
© Nathan Lazarnick, ca. 1934, Advertisement for Sanka Coffee
On September 18, 1934, a stunning exhibition sponsored by the National Alliance of Art and Industry (NAAI) and the Photographic Illustrators, Inc. opened in the gallery of New York City's 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
The show featured 250 works by the top artistic and commercial photographers of the day, with a particular focus on advertising and industrial images. In 1935, approximately 125 prints from the NAAI exhibition came to Harvard Business School, which was actively collecting photographs for exhibition and classroom use.
"The High Art of Photographic Advertising" revisits the 1934 exhibition—a collection that seventy-five years later survives as a telling chapter in evolving perceptions about photography's artistic, commercial, and cultural significance.
Find more photos of this exhibition here.