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Gene Smith's sink : a wide-angle view / Sam Stephenson.
Author
Stephenson, Sam
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]
Description
x, 206 pages ; 22 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Marquand Library Use Only
TR140.S627 S74 2017
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Subject(s)
Photojournalists
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United States
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Biography
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Smith, W. Eugene 1918-1978
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Smith, W. Eugene 1918-1978
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Correspondence
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Smith, W. Eugene 1918-1978
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Friends and associates
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Summary note
"An incisive biography of the prolific photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith; In an interview with Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith remarked: "I didn't write the rules, why should I follow them?" Famously unabashed, Smith is photography's most celebrated humanist. During his reign as a photo-essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s and 1950s, he established himself as an intimate chronicler of human culture. His photographs of jazz musicians, disasters, doctors, and midwives revolutionized the role that image-making played in journalism, transforming photography for decades to come. In 1997, lured by the intoxicating trail of people that emerged from Smith's stupefying archive, Sam Stephenson set out to research those who knew him from various angles. In Gene Smith's Sink, Stephenson revives Smith's life and legacy, merging traditional biography with highly untraditional digressions. Traveling across twenty-nine states, Japan, and the Pacific, Stephenson tracks down a lively cast of characters, including the playwright Tennessee Williams, to whom Smith likened himself; the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, with whom he once shared a chalet; the artist Mary Frank, who was married to his friend Robert Frank; and Thelonious Monk and Sonny Clark, whom Smith recorded on surreptitious tapes. The result of twenty years of research, Gene Smith's Sink is an unprecedented look into the photographer's beguiling legacy and the subjects around him"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
-- Mexicana
Wichita
List of Projects
Jim Karales
The Big Book
Larry Clark
Camino Real
Sean O'Casey
Chuck-Wills-Widow
Sonny Clark
What Happened to Ronnie Free?
Tamas Janda
Dorrie Glenn Woodson
Mary Frank
A Sample of Smith's Papers and Correspondence, 1959-1961
Ruth Fetske
Hall Overton / Calvin Albert
Overron / Thelonious Monk
Aileen Mioko Smith
Interpreter Needed
Meeting at Narita
Kazuhiko Motomura
Reikon
Takeshi Ishikawa
Saipan
A Long Telegram
Maude Callen
Blanche Dubois / Lena Grove.
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ISBN
9780374232153 ((hardcover))
0374232156 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016052191
OCLC
964447386
Other standard number
40027417140
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