W.Eugene Smith

This is the most complete monograph on the work of W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), one of the heroes of American photojournalism. Beginning in the 1930s, working for Newsweek and other magazines, he created poetic photo essays of enormous and lasting impact. Drawing from Smith's own archives and including illuminating texts, this comprehensive volume features more than 300 superb duotone reproductions of both famous and never-before-published images from his most important works. Smith's Life magazine photo essays are represented by images created in the 1940s and '50s for, among others, the landmark "Country Doctor", "Spanish Village", "Nurse Midwife", and "Albert Schweitzer: Man of Mercy". Among his later independent works are the hugely ambitious series on Pittsburgh and Haiti from the late 1950s. His last project was the disturbing 1970s essay Minimata, on the consequences of industrial pollution in Japan. The photographs were selected by photographic historian Gilles Mora and designer John T. Hill from the Smith collection at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.

ISBN 0810941910   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780810941915 (What's this?)   Pages 352 Publisher Abrams   Volumes 001 Imprint Harry N. Abrams, Inc.   Weight (grammes) 2404 Format Hardback   Published in New York Publication date 01 Oct 1998   Height (mm) 320 Non-book description 352 p. :   Width (mm) 251 Library of Congress TR820.S484   Spine width (mm) 34 DEWEY 779.092   Academic level General

		W. Eugene Smith: The Arrogant Martyr by Gilles Mora		6
		What Is a Symbolic Image? by Serge Tisseron		66
		W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh: Rumours of a City by Alan Trachtenberg		174
		The Influences of a Legend by Gabriel Bauret		314
		W. Eugene Smith: His Techniques and Process by John T. Hill		336
		Acknowledgments		344
		Annotations		344
		Chronology		348
		Bibliography		350

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