Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project

SMITH, W. Eugene, Sam Stephenson and Alan Trachtenberg

ISBN 10: 0393325121 / ISBN 13: 9780393325126

Edité par The Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2001

First edition and first printing. Softcover. 176 pages. Review copy with laid in publisher information sheet. Published on the occasion of a travelling exhibition. Features text by editor Sam Stephenson and an essay by Alan Tractenberg. Includes 175 duotones all taken during Smith's years in Pittsburgh. A very near fine copy in French style wrappers. A terrific book that examines a much less well explored body of Smith's work who was best known for his work in Minamata and as a Life photographer. There was a recent movie with Johnny Deep as Smith about his project "Minamata.". N° de réf. du vendeur 214497

Synopsis :

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 and produce one hundred photographs for noted journalist 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 mid-century 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.

À propos des auteurs: Sam Stephenson is a writer and consultant at the Center for Documentary Studies.

Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Grey Professor of American Studies and English Literature at Yale University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh ...
Éditeur : The Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton & Company, New York
Date d'édition : 2001
Reliure : Couverture souple
Edition : First Edition.