W Eugene Smith

Born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1918, W. Eugene Smith was a combat photographer during World War II, and worked for" Life "magazine during the 1940s and 1950s, producing more than fifty photo-essays. In the early 1970s, he photographed in Minamata, Japan, a small village affected by industrial mercury poisoning. Jim Hughes, former editor of" Camera Arts," the "Photography Annual" and" Camera 35," is the author of "W. Eugene Smith: Shadow & Substance,"" Ernst Haas in Black and White," and "The Birth...See more

Born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1918, W. Eugene Smith was a combat photographer during World War II, and worked for" Life "magazine during the 1940s and 1950s, producing more than fifty photo-essays. In the early 1970s, he photographed in Minamata, Japan, a small village affected by industrial mercury poisoning. Jim Hughes, former editor of" Camera Arts," the "Photography Annual" and" Camera 35," is the author of "W. Eugene Smith: Shadow & Substance,"" Ernst Haas in Black and White," and "The Birth of a Century." See less