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Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project, 1955-1958 by Sam A. Stephenson, In 1955, Having just ended his high-profile but stormy career with Life magazine by resigning, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three weeks in Pittsburgh aperture eugene master photography smith w and produce one hundred photographs for noted journalist aperture eugene master photography smith w and author Stefan Lorant's book commemorating the city's bicentennial. Smith stayed a year, compiling nearly sixteen thousand photographs for what would be the most ambitious photographic essay of his life. But only a fragment of the work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction that it was his greatest set of photographs. Now, in an astonishing, first-time assemblage, edited by Sam Stephenson, of the group of core pictures that Smith asserted were the "synthesis of the whole, " we see a portrayal not just of Pittsburgh but also of America at midcentury by a master photojournalist. In his accompanying essay, Alan Trachtenberg provides a critical reading of Smith's photographs, assessing Smith's attempt to document visually an American city in the context of the time period.
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Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project by Sam Stephenson, IN 1955, W. Eugene Smith ended his high-profile but stormy career with Life magazine aperture eugene master photography smith w and was commissioned to produce one hundred photographs for noted author Stefan Lorant's book commemorating Pittsburgh's bicentennial. Instead, Smith stayed a year, compiling sixteen thousand photographs for the most ambitious photographic essay of his life. But only a fraction of the Pittsburgh photographs were ever seen, despite Smith's conviction that they were his greatest work. This book assembles Smith's project for the first time, in an astonishing portrayal of midcentury America by a master photojournalist.
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