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Title: Let Truth Be the Prejudice : W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs by Ben Maddow, John G. Morris, W. Eugene Smith ISBN: 0-89381-179-3 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: He didn't editorialize
Comment: In the mid-70's, I attended a slide lecture by Smith at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. I didn't know a thing about him, but the presentation haunts me still. He was helped onto the stage, a very old man, and quietly, he narrated the Minimata work in a slide show. The audience, a bunch of party school undergrads and townspeople, were completely silent the entire time. It was almost as if Smith knew that if the slightest emotion showed in his voice, his audience would be lost in sobs. He didn't editorialize, he just spoke, simply and quietly. At the end of the show, he put up one last slide. It was of a blackboard with the words in chalk, "Thank you, all you lovely people." It brings tears to my eyes almost 20 years later.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brillantly sad and talented man
Comment: The life of W. Eugene Smith is none the less; inspiring yet depressingly so... A reflection of the truth in life, man and society.
Rating: 5
Summary: He was probably a bastard, but I wish I'd met him
Comment: In the fall of 1985 I drove down from Northern New Jersey to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see the retrospective show of W. Eugene Smith's work for which this book was the catalog. I walked through the rooms and people stood in front of his Minamata photographs, weeping. Smith paid for those pictures with his eyesight, probably the better part of his sanity. If he drank before, the stories are that after his return from Japan he plunged into the bottle full-bore. If one can talk of a man's life and work in religious terms, W. Eugene Smith's career was a prolonged and self-willed crucifixion, a sacrifice in the name of a Truth that I'm not sure we're ready for yet.
I haven't photographed seriously in quite a few years, but whenever I made a print, there in the darkroom I could feel Smith's presence saying two things to me: "You're lousy at this" and "Don't ever stop."
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Title: Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project, 1955-1958 by W. Eugene Smith, Sam Stephenson, Carnegie Museum of Art, Alan Trachtenberg ISBN: 0393044084 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: W. Eugene Smith by W. Eugene Smith, John Hughes ISBN: 0893818364 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 31 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title:W. Eugene Smith - Photography Made Difficult ASIN: B00005UQ8N Publisher: Image Entertainment Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.49 |
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Title: Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers by Ken Light, Kerry Tremain ISBN: 1560989483 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach, Fourth Edition by Kenneth Kobré ISBN: 0240804155 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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