Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View

by Sam Stephenson

Book Overview

An incisive biography of the prolific photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith

Famously unabashed, W. Eugene Smith was photography's most celebrated humanist. As a photo essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s and '50s, he established himself as an intimate chronicler of human culture. His photographs of war and disaster, villages and metropolises, doctors and midwives, revolutionized the role of images in journalism, transforming photography...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374232156
• ISBN13: 9780374232153
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"