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Let Truth be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs
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Let Truth be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs
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W. Eugene Smith & Ben Maddow
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Let Truth Be The Prejudice. W Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs. Worldfamous biography by Ben Maddow; Afterword by John G. Morris. Here is the definitive book on Smith's life and work, containing his major photoessays, the portrait work, and spanning his brilliant career from his days aboard an aircraft carrier, through the breadth of Pittsburgh, to the human suffering explicit in his last great essay in Minanata. 250 duotone photographs, 10 X 13, 240 pages.
This reprinting of Ben Maddow's clssic 1985 'illustrated biography' of this century's most richly problematic photojournalist a book full of ideas, insights, information, and fine reproductions now joins Jim Hughes's subsequent critical biography, Shadow and Substance, Gilles Mora and John T. Hill's just published W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975, unfortunately out of print Master of the Photographic Essay, to constitute a substantial critical literature in book form on this germinal figure.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0893811793
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David A. Cantor
Photo Editor / Photographer
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Toledo
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[01/06/03] Maddow's biography of Smith in this volume is as compelling as the work and the man himself. The reproductions bring the intensity of Smith's work behind the camera and in the darkroom to the page in a truly dramatic fashion. The insightful description of a man driven by so much of the potential of photography ( and some inner demons and passions) can be alternately inspirational and frightful. In the end we are left in awe of the kind of person who left such a rich, enduring and forceful visual legagcy . As he once told a student during a portfolio review, "You can't photograph if you aren't in love." There can nothing but respect for the biographer who can match that intensity with an incisive description of that life. John Morris contributes what can only be called the perfect afterword. |
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