W. Eugene Smith and the Photographic Essay

by Glenn Gardner Willumson

This is the first in-depth study of one of the most important photojournalists of the postwar period in America. Examining the antecedents for the photo-essay, a genre that Smith perfected, Glenn Willumson closely analyses the four works that he produced for Life magazine, and for which he is best known: 'Country Doctor', 'Spanish Village', 'Nurse-Midwife', and 'Man of Mercy'. In his study of these works, now acknowledged to set the standard by which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521414644
• ISBN13: 9780521414647
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 11.3"