Let Truth Be The Prejudice

Kunst- und Musikwissenschaften / Photographie / Bildbände


Maddow, Ben
W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs

Signatur: M001-B270-D001-A001; ;
Buchart: Bildband
Verlag: Apertune Foundation, New York, NY (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Veröffentlichung: 1998
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 240
Format:
Größe (HxBXT): 34,0 x 26,2 cm x 2,3 cm
ISBN 13: 978-0-8938-1179-2
Let Truth Be The Prejudice
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1. The wounded Angel; 2. World War II; 3. Postwar America; 4. Abroad; 5. After life; 6. Japan

1. Afterword; 2. Bibliography

Kurzbeschreibung:
Hochwertiger Bildband mit hohem Textanteil und zahlreichen Photos des ausergewöhnlichen Photographs W. Eugene Smith

Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"William Eugene Smith was born in Wichita, Kansas, on December 30, 1918, and died in Tuscon, Arizona, on October 15, 1978. Everyone's life is finally inexplicable; his was rather less so. Hos vocation, he once said, was to do nothing less than record, by word and photograph, the human condition. No one could really succeed at such a job; yet Smith almost did. During his relatively brief and often painful life, he created at least fifty images so powerful that they have altered the perception of our history. [...]"