W. Eugene Smith - His Photographs and Notes (VERY FRESH CONDITION) - 1973

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"In Gene's photographs there is something which throbs, something always tremulant. They are taken between the shirt and the skin. Anchored between the shirt and the skin - at the heart - his camera moves even more by its passionate integrity."
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Aperture, New York. Special Museum of Modern Art Edition. First edition, second printing 1973 (originally published in 1969).

Hardcover with dustjacket. 220 x 255 mm. 150 pages. Photos: W. Eugene Smith. Foreword: William E. Parker. Afterword by Lincoln Kirstein. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside very fresh and very clean with no marks and with no foxing; the first two photo pages with a production-related crease, otherwise like new and unread. Book outside excellent, fresh and flawless (protected by the jacket). Dustjacket excellent, very fresh and flawless, marginal trace of use only; complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts. Overall fine condition.

Great book by W. Eugene Smith with original dustjacket - in very fresh condition.

"My station in life is to capture the action of life, the life of the world, its humor, its tragedies, in other words, life as it is. A true picture, unposed and real...I i am shooting a beggar. I want the distress in his eyes, if a steel factory i want the symbol of strength and power that is there...I want (my pictures) to be symbolic of something...I realize that this is pitiful effort to explain my philosophy of photography, but it is out of this haze that the fulfilling of my ambition will be. Long years are ahead, probably years of hardship, but what care i if i can succeed."
(W. Eugene Smith, 1936)

"William Eugene Smith was born in 1918 in Wichita, Kansas. He took his first photographs at the age of 15 for two local newspapers. In 1936, Smith entered Notre Dame University in Wichita, where a special photographic scholarship was created for him. A year later he left the university and went to New York City, and after studying with Helene Sanders at the New York Institute of Photography. In 1937, he began working for News-Week (later Newsweek). He was fired for refusing to use medium-format cameras and joined the Black Star agency as a freelancer.
Smith worked as a war correspondent for Flying magazine (1943-44), and a year later for LIFE. He followed the island-hopping American offensive against Japan and suffered severe injuries while simulating battle conditions for Parade, which required him to undergo surgery for the next two years.
Once recuperated, Eugene Smith worked for LIFE again between 1947 and 1955, before resigning to join Magnum as an associate. In 1957, he became a full member of Magnum. Smith was fanatically dedicated to his mission as a photographer. Because of this dedication, he was often regarded by editors as ‘troublesome’.
A year after he moved to Tucson, to teach at the University of Arizona, Smith died of a stroke. His archives are held at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.
Today, Smith’s legacy lives on through the W. Eugene Smith Fund to promote ‘humanistic photography’, founded in 1980, which awards photographers for exceptional accomplishments in the field."
(Magnum website)