Let Truth be the Prejudice

Traces the life and career of the American photojournalist and looks at his photographs.

ISBN 0893811793   DEWEY 770.92 ISBN13 9780893811792 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC21 Publisher Aperture   Pages 240 Imprint Aperture   Volumes 1 Format Hardback   Weight (grammes) 2150 Publication date 12 Sep 1985   Published in New York Reissue date 01 Jul 2004   Height (mm) 300 Non-book description 240 p. :   Width (mm) 230 Photographer Smith, W. Eugene   Spine width (mm) 23 Library of Congress TR820.5.M3   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, General

"In Eugene Smith's work the world found an important aspect of America-- its longstanding moral passion. He hungered after that conclusive, suggestive moment of visual truth; he sought through pictures a precis of one then another aspect of our humanity. And he succeeded in that search-- giving us in sum a broad and deep rendering of this life's thickly textured particulars. We are much indebted to him."--Robert Coles, author of "Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime" "Gene Smith is reviewed today as a shining knight of light. He explored photography's power to project human drama and emotion. He succeeded in raising our level of conscience and he himself perished too soon, paying the price."--Cornell Capa, Director, International Center of Photography "Gene Smith was perhaps the photographer who tried most heroically to make the magazine photo story lead the standards of coherence, intensity, and personal accountability that one expects of a work of art."--John Szarkowski, Director, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art

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