W. Eugene Smith, Retrospektive, Berlin
 
 
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W. Eugene Smith, Retrospektive, Berlin

 

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Photographer W. Eugene Smith

W. Eugene Smith - the retrospective of the legendary documentary photographer's perspective as an exhibition in Berlin and book published by Kehrer Verlag

At the tender age of 15, W. Eugene Smith (*1918) took his first pictures and started to occasionally work for two local newspapers, The Wichita Eagle and The Wichita Beacon. In 1936, his father killed himself for economic reasons – he was currently studying photography at the Notre-Dame-University in South Bend, Indiana at the time and planned to work for the Newsweek magazine and the Black Star agency.

He was by no means a conformist –...

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