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This is the most complete monograph on the work of W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), one of the heroes of American photojournalism. Beginning in the 1930s, working for Newsweek and other magazines, he created poetic photo essays of enormous and lasting impact. Drawing from Smiths own archives and including illuminating texts, this comprehensive volume features more than 300 superb duotone reproductions of both famous and never-before-published images from his most important works.Smiths LIFE magazine photo essays are represented by images created in the 1940s and 50s for, among others, the landmark "Country Doctor," "Spanish Village," "Nurse Midwife," and "Albert Schweitzer: Man of Mercy." Among his later independent works are the hugely ambitious series on Pittsburgh and Haiti from the late 1950s. His last project was the disturbing 1970s essay Minimata, on the consequences of industrial pollution in Japan.The photographs were selected by photographic historian Gilles Mora and designer John T. Hill from the Smith collection at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.Gilles Mora is founding editor of Les Cahiers de la Photographie and author of several books, including Abrams' Edward Weston: Forms of Passion and (co-author, with John T. Hill) Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye. John T. Hill is a photographer, designer, and former director of graduate studies in photography at the Yale University School of Art.Gabrielle Beauret is an author and curator based in Paris, and former editor of Camera International.Serge Tisseron is a Parisian psychiatrist and the author of several books on the problems of images and society.Alan Trachtenberg is a professor of English and American studies at Yale University and author of a definitive book on the Brooklyn Bridge.

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