Format:
1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
ISBN:
9780226827018
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0226827011
Content:
"New edition of poignant selected images from famed Life photographer W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh project. In 1955, having just resigned from his high-profile but stormy career with Life Magazine, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three weeks in Pittsburgh and produce one hundred photographs for noted journalist and author Stefan Lorant's book commemorating the city's bicentennial. Smith ended up staying a year, compiling twenty thousand images for what would be the most ambitious photographic essay of his life. But only a fragment of this work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction that it was his greatest collection of photographs. In 2001, Sam Stephenson published for the first time an assemblage of the core images from this project, selections that Smith asserted were the "synthesis of the whole," presenting not only a portrayal of Pittsburgh but of postwar America. This new edition, updated with a foreword by the poet Ross Gay, offers a fresh vision of Smith's masterpiece"--
Note:
"Originally published by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001, with the participation of the Collection and W. Eugene Smith Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona."
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Includes bibliographical references
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Ross Gay -- "W. Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh" by Sam Stephenson -- Photographs -- "'Man-Breaking City': W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh" by Alan Trachtenberg -- W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Layout for Photography Annual 1959 -- Notes to Photographs -- Acknowledgments
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226824833
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Smith, W. Eugene, - 1918-1978 Dream street Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023 ISBN 9780226824833
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bildband
Author information:
Smith, William Eugene 1918-1978
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