W. Eugene Smith Exhibition
Bruce Silverstein
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Silverstein Photography announces The Art of History, an integral survey of artist W. Eugene Smith's rare works. W. Eugene Smith's artful renderings of earnest subjects have made him known throughout the world as the preeminent authority of photojournalism and originator of the photographic essay. During his fruitful career Smith displayed an unwavering commitment to photography, its communication of events and their often complex emotions.
Dating back to his beginnings as a young photographer for the Wichita Eagle, Smith had a ravenous appetite for capturing the news of the day. His determination to bear witness to the historical events of the period placed Smith among the company of other politically minded photographers of the time including Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Like Lange and Evans, Smith worked against the current of genteel pictorialism then popular throughout America and Europe, and instead honed in on the humanist tragedies of the time, using his camera as the great raconteur
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from May 25, 2008 to August 01, 2008