 William Eugene Smith
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W. EUGENE SMITH
Photojournalist
(1918 -1978)
W. Eugene Smith, in his own lifetime, became one of photography's legendary figures. He was, undeniably, one of the worlds greatest photojournalists (in the opinion of many). He was a photographer of technical competence matched by very few and his consummate skill in the darkroom makes an original Gene Smith print a work of art in itself, over and above the skill and insight that went into the actual taking of the picture. Finally, and most impo...
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Les périgrinations en Pennsylvanie de William E. Smith
En 1955, au sommet de sa carrière, désireux de retrouver sa liberté, W. Eugene SMITH claque la porte du magazine Life, au sein duquel, pendant plus de 15 ans, il a établi avec panache sa réputation mondiale de photojournaliste, et de nouvelles règles exigeantes pour sa profession, en particulier ce qu’il nomme &...
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More Real than Reality - W. Eugene Smith
This winter, Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents a retrospective containing work by W. Eugene Smith (US, 1918-1978). Smith has been hailed as the founder of the photographic essay. His extensive pictorial narratives, accompanied by captions and comments, appeared in magazines such as the world-famous American periodical Life in the 1950s, the heyday of photographic journalism. Smith&rsq...
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POLKA MAGAZINE #9 croise les regards... ...et annonce la couleur
Polka croise les regards...
La psychose des attentats à New York, neuf ans après le 11 septembre, est au coeur du dernier travail d’Ethan Levitas. Présenté à la fois dans le magazine et à la galerie, « In Advance in a Broken Arm » dénonce, par le jeu de regard des policiers newyorkais, les non-dits du pays des libert&eacu...
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Country Doctor, Spanish Village, Nurse Midwife, A Man of Mercy by W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith (1918–1978) revolutionized the photo-essay form with the works he published in Life magazine between 1948 and 1956. This monograph reproduces images from six classic sequences: Country Doctor,which portrays the selfless and sometimes frustrating work of a doctor in rural America; Spanish Village, the most powerful photographic study of 1950s Spain; Nurse Midwife,which exam...
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Fine 19th, 20th and Contemporary Photography
For 30 years this show has been a magnet for all photography fans, from novices buying their first photograph to some of America's top museum curators looking for something really unusual. There are over 400 photographs for sale by such masters as Ansel Adams, Eugene Atget, Edward Curtis, Frantisek Dritikol, Robert Frank, Lewis Hine, E.O. Hoppe, Edwin Hale Lincoln, Eliot Porter, Eadweard ...
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Darkside, Vol. 2: Photographic Power and Photographed Violence, Disease and Death
Following the survey of photographed sexuality and lust in Darkside I, the other end of the physical spectrum is illuminated: the intimate affinity between death and photography – impairment, disease, degeneration, violence and death, pain, grief and loss. Recording death is, along with war reporting, one of photography’s original tasks. Pictures of horror are often shocking and yet...
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DARK SIDE 2 - Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed
Following the investigation of photographed sexuality and desire in Darkside I, Fotomuseum Winterthur focuses now on the other extreme of the bodily spectrum, charting the path from the body as a veritable ‘picture of health’ to the body injured, disfigured or mutilated, in decline and decay. This raises questions: Why is there an intimate affinity between photography and death? Why...
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Living with the Dead : W. Eugene Smith and World War II
Among the most compelling and heart-rending photographs ever taken of warfare are those made by W. Eugene Smith during World War II. On assignment from Ziff-Davis and LIFE magazine, Smith (1918–1978) covered the Pacific theater from 1943 to 1945. After serving on the carrier U.S.S. Bunker Hill, Smith participated in numerous allied landings, including Guam, Tarawa, Saipan, Leyte, Iwo Jima...
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Magnum Photos 60 years at the Stedelijk Museum
Throughout that period MAGNUM never ceased to supply photographs that have become part of the world’s collective memory – pictures of landmark events like the Russian army’s invasion of Prague in 1968 and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. The exhibition uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of MAGNUM year by year and gives visitors t...
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