- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Aperture; illustrated edition edition (12 Sep 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0893811793
- ISBN-13: 978-0893811792
- Product Dimensions: 33.8 x 26.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,147,565 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Traces the life and career of the American photojournalist and looks at his photographs.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As a lover of Smiths' work this book is a complete masterpiece. Printed on a heavy glossy stock, the narrative is compelling with Smiths'own quotes and letters lending a real time flavour to the photographs. A revealing insight into the man and his driving conviction to his craft and his beliefs. Pricey? Yes. Worth it? Of course!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book several years ago when Smith's exhibition was at the Barbican,it has been a constant source of insperation. The bonus was that the Minimarta series was included in the book. Definitly a must have book for any one interested in the history of documentry photography.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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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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