Kertész was commissioned to take photographs for a feature on an American jazz troupe that included a male dancer with a wooden leg. His portraits of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, as well as views of him dancing, were reproduced in the Münchner Illustrierte Presse...and also a Hungarian paper. None, however, was made from such a small portion of the negative as this example, a treatment that aestheticized the composition. (André Kertész: Of Paris and New York, catalogue number 86, p. 269.)