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―Photo is a small voice, at best, but sometimes - just sometimes - one photograph or a group of them can lure our senses into awareness. Much depends upon
the viewer; in some, photographs can summon enough emotion to be a catalyst to thought. ‖
-W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith
By: Angelia Gonzalez
Born in 1918 in Wichita, Kansas.
Age 15 he took his first photographs
for two local newspapers.
Born in 1918 in Wichita, Kansas.
•Age 15 he took his first photographs
for two local newspapers.
Biography
•In 1936 he entered Notre Dame
University in Wichita
•1937 he began working for
News-Week; he was then fired
for refusing to use medium-
format cameras.
•Worked as a war correspondent
for Flying magazine (1942-44)
and then a year later he worked
for Life.
Biography (cont.)
•He was fanatically dedicated to
his mission as a photographer
when he became a full member of
Magnum in 1957.
•A year later Smith died (d.1978)
from a stroke, after moving to
Tucson to teach at the University
of Arizona.
Biography (cont.)
• Born in 1918 and
died from a massive
stroke in 1978 from
a long term
consumption of
drugs and alcohol.
• Eugene Smith‟s
greatest contribution
was during WORLD
WAR II when he
became a war
correspondent for
Ziff-Davis.
WORLD WAR II. The
Pacific Campaign.
November 1943. Tarawa
atoll.
WORLD WAR II. The Pacific Campaign.
27 June 1944. Battle of Saipan Island. US
Marines.
I didn‘t write the rules — why should I
follow them? Since I put a great deal of time
and research to know what I am about? I
ask and arrange if I feel it is legitimate. The
honesty lies in my — the photographer‘s —
ability to understand.
–W. Eugene Smith
Influences. • His creative
outlook and
thinking
came from
his discovery
of the world
of music
which is one
of his major
influences.
• Smith is said
to be one of
the worlds
greatest
photojournali
sts (from the
opinions of
many.)
1969. US jazz trumpeter Miles Davis
Smith‟s photos
showed emotion
and sort of told a
story to them.
He let the ideas
come from the
subject itself
rather than force
them.
He didn‟t just take
a single photo, he
would take groups
of photos in photo
essays.
Importance.
WORLD WAR II. The Pacific Campaign. April 1945. The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese island).
WORLD WAR II. The Pacific
Campaign. June 1944. Battle of
Saipan Island. US Marine holding a
wounded and dying baby found in
the mountains.
‗Country Doctor‘
Colorado. Kremmling. 1948. Dr. Ernest Guy Ceriani, a country doctor going to visit his patients in their remote villages.
In the backseat of a car, Dr. Ceriani assists a shot of morphine to a 60-year-old tourist from Chicago, seen here with her grandson, who was suffering from a mild heart disturbance.
‗Country Doctor‘
1948. Dr. Ceriani with Lee Marie Wheatly, a two and a half year old child who needed emergency treatment after having been kicked in the head by a horse.
“Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.”
-W. Eugene Smith
‗Nurse Midwife‘
• Maude gets ready in kitchen by
lamplight(top)
• Annabelle Fuller was seriously
cut in an auto accident and
Maude had given her first aid.
Now the girl returns to have
her dressings changed.(left)
Inside a church.
Maude inspects a
patient behind a
bedsheet screen.
Jazz musician
Thelonious
Monk. Circa
1965.
Singer and musician Bob Dylan. 1965.
“I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at
them they would say, „This is war‟--that the people who were
in the war would believe that I had truthfully captured what
they had gone through... I worked in the framework that war is
horrible. I want to carry on what I have tried to do in these
pictures. War is a concentrated unit in the world and these
things are clearly and cleanly seen. Things like race
prejudice, poverty, hatred and bigotry are sprawling things in
civilian life, and not so easy to define as war.” –W. Eugene
Smith
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• "W Eugene Smith." Brainy Quote. brainyquote.com, Web. 18 Mar 2013.
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