|
|
|
|
|
|
W. Eugene Smith Biography
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1918
|
|
Born in Wichita, Kansas
|
|
|
1936
|
|
Studied photography at Notre Dame University in Wichita
|
|
|
1937
|
|
Studied with Helene Sanders at the New York Institute of Photography
|
|
|
1937
|
|
Began working for Newsweek
|
|
|
1937
|
|
Joined the Black Star agency as a freelance photographer
|
|
|
1943 - 1944
|
|
Worked as a war correspondent for Flying magazine
|
|
|
1945 - 1947
|
|
Worked for Life magazine
|
|
|
1978
|
|
Died in Tuscon, Arizona
|
|
|
2001 - 2002 |
|
Dream Street - W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs, Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh, PA; ICP, New York; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ |
|
|
1998 - 1999 |
|
W. Eugene Smith, Hôtel de Sully, Paris, France; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK; Pallazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy |
|
|
1991 |
|
W. Eugene Smith, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France |
|
|
1974 |
|
Let Truth Be the Prejudice, Jewish Museum, New York; American Institute of Architects Centennial Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
|
|
|
|
|
Links to further information |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|