Framing The Shadows
The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith

http://harpers.org/archive/2017/12/framing-the-shadows/
Publisher:  Harper's Magazine
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article

A look at the life and work of American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, who is particularly noted for his brilliant photo essays that chronicled suffering and injustice.

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It is not beyond reason that it is also the psychotic in men that drives them to greatness. - W. Eugene Smith Near the end of 1954, at thirty-five, the photographer W. Eugene Smith quit his job at Life magazine, departing an institution that had brought him international fame, publishing his astonishing war photographs and innovative photo essays. His resignation followed years of fighting with his editors over the processing and layout of his pictures. The final battle concerned a spread on Albert Schweitzer, the French-German physician and theologian who had received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work