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W. Eugene Smith

W. Eugene Smith. “I am interested in shaking man’s heart.”. Biography. Born in Wichita, Kansas December 20, 1918 Died in Tucson, Arizona October 15, 1978. Biography (continued). Photographer for Local Newspapers New York City Newsweek LIFE MAGAZINE- 1939 1943 War correspondent

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W. Eugene Smith

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  1. W. Eugene Smith “I am interested in shaking man’s heart.”

  2. Biography • Born in Wichita, Kansas • December 20, 1918 • Died in Tucson, Arizona • October 15, 1978

  3. Biography (continued) • Photographer for Local Newspapers • New York City • Newsweek • LIFE MAGAZINE- 1939 • 1943 War correspondent • 1950 UK General Election • Magnum Photo Agency-1955 • Pittsburgh

  4. WWII “I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war – the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.”

  5. WWII (continued)

  6. “I needed to make a photograph that was the opposite of war.” “The Walk to Paradise Garden”

  7. “I wish to plunge deeply into stories that are the very guts of our time.” “I let the ideas come from the subject itself, instead of force them.”

  8. Nurse Midwife Maude Callen Eases Pain of Life and Death. Pineville, South Carolina

  9. The Pittsburgh Essay • Three week project deadline • Spanned for three years • Over 10,000 negatives • Too enormous of a project • LIFE Magazine offered $13,000

  10. Pittsburgh (continued) • Assigned to capture the essence of the city

  11. Continued… • Coal mining • Rivers • Steel

  12. Minamata Minamata disease was caused by the Chisso Corporation’s chemical plant in Minamata, Japan. From 1932 to 1968 the Chisso Corporation dumped waste water containing mercury into Minamata Bay. The mercury contaminated fish and other sea creatures in the bay which were the staple food for Minamata villagers. For his last Photo essay, Eugene Smith and his wife Aileen lived in Minamata, capturing the struggles and corruption in the fishing village.

  13. “Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes-just sometimes-one photograph or a group of them can lure our senses to awareness.”

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