Eugene Smith/Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt - 2 photos: Inside the magic forest

Beautiful semi-glossy print on heavy paper

Excellent condition 30x35 cm, margins included

Eugene Smith: The Walk to Paradise Garden.
The photograph has become a symbol of purity and innocence, turning photography into an art in its own right.
Imbued with the wonder of fairy tales, it was taken by Eugene Smith in moving circumstances that contrast with the serene mood that leads from shadow to light.
The two children are none other than Eugene Smith's own children. They are on the way to swim, followed closely by their father. However, the war photographer, still wounded on his return from Asia, suffers greatly to be able to immortalize the photograph. He would later confess:
"I tried to, and ignore the sudden violence of pain that real effort shot again and again through my hand, up my hand, and into my spine … swallowing, sucking, gagging, trying to pull the ugly tasting serum inside, into my mouth and throat, and away from dripping down on the camera…."

Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt: Portugal 1980