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"The US-American photographer William Eugene SMITH (1918 -1978) revolutionized the form of the photo essay, especially with the works he published in 'Life' magazine between 1948 and 1956.
Content
This out-of-print monograph on the work of William Eugene SMITH shows images from six series that are now regarded as classics of reportage photography: 'Country Doctor', a portrait of the selfless and at times frustrating day-to-day work of a country doctor in rural America; 'Spanish Village', a tremendously powerful study of 1950s Spain, 'Nurse Midwife' about the life of a black midwife in the American South; 'A Man of Mercy', a documentation of Albert Schweitzer's humanitarian work in Africa; 'Minamata', a reportage on the consequences of a mercury accident in a Japanese fishing village, and finally Pittsburgh, the first freelance work of the American photographer. The book contains texts by the photographer himself about his working methods and principles. William Eugene SMITH writes about the creation of what is probably his most famous photograph, 'A Walk to a Paradise Garden', and about Spain in the 1950s, where one of his most impressive photo essays was taken." (© Kehrer Verlag, 2011)