W. Eugene Smith

photographs and tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965

The jazz loft project

Sam Stephenson

Alan Trachtenberg

An epic study of industrial Pittsburgh in the 1950s by the legendary photographer features his commemoration of the city's bicentennial and assembles most of the project's photography for the first time. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project

Dream Street

The books in this series are accessible, collectable pocket books which present the best and most interesting figures in photography worldwide, and since the medium began, to established and new audiences.

John Berger

William S. Johnson

Katharine Martinez

Volumes One and Two

Big Book

Britt Salvesen

Enrica Viganò

The American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith revolutionized the photo-essay form with the works he published in Lifemagazine between 1948 and 1956. This monograph reproduces images from six classic sequences of this era: Country Doctor(1948), which portrays the selfless and sometimes frustrating work of a doctor in rural America; Spanish Village(1950), perhaps the most powerful photographic study of 1950s Spain; Nurse Midwife(1951), which examines the life of a black woman in the American south; A Man of Mercy(1954), which documents Dr. Albert Schweitzer's humanitarian work in Africa; Pittsburgh(1955), Smith's first freelance assignment, previously unpublished; and Minamata91971-1973), a photo-essay recording the effects caused by a mercury spill in a region inhabited by Japanese fishermen. Together, these six classic documents of twentieth-century photography affirm Smith as an impassioned conscience, with practical ends in mind for his work: "I put such passion and energy into my photographic work that, more than their being just for art's sake, I prefer to think that my photographs push someone to action, to do something, to solve something," he one wrote. This volume includes previously unpublished writings by Smith that elucidate his field techniques and guiding principles, as well as the memoir "A Walk to a Paradise Garden," which tells the tale of his most acclaimed photograph. W. Eugene Smith(1918-1978) was born in Wichita, Kansas. After graduating from high school he moved to New York and found work with Newsweek, who famously fired him because he refused to use a medium-format camera. Smith joined Lifemagazine in 1939, and accompanied American battalions on the offensive against Japan. In 1955 he joined Magnum, and throughout the following two decades produced numerous key works of photojournalism. Smith died from a stroke in 1978.

More Real Than Reality

Tina Modotti

Barbara Morgan

Wynn Bullock

Harry Callahan

Eikoh Hosoe

Aperture Masters of Photography Six-Copy Collector's Set Includes Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Eikoh Hosoe, Tina Modotti, Barbara Morgan, and W. Eugene Smith Aperture's expanded Masters of Photography series presents an engrossing introduction to the photographers whose work has incalculably affected the way we regard the world. Each volume begins with an essay by a leading critic or historian, offering an incisive look at the photographer's career and importance in the history of photography. Each hardcover, clothbound volume in this slipcased set features approximately forty duotone images.

Masters of Photography

Aperture

W. Eugene Smith (Aperture Masters of Photography)

W. Eugene Smith

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