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According to the Witkin Gallery’s original invoice, “Only nine prints were made of the projected
200, so the correct edition notation should be 3/9.”
Bourke-White had arranged with LIFE to publish a portfolio of 12 classic images, of which
The Louisville
Flood
was the first picture. Due to her death in 1971, the publication was never completed or fulfilled.
In the 1990s, the LIFE Gallery of Photography began issuing posthumous prints from Bourke-White’s
negatives in a slightly smaller format.These later LIFE photographs were produced with Bourke-White’s
embossed facsimile signature in an edition of 50 numbered copies, which quickly sold out.