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W. Eugene Smith's “Jazz Loft” Photos and Recordings Featured in Exhibit ...
Wall Street Journal (blog) - Feb 16, 2010
As it happened, former Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith lived in the building at 821 Sixth Avenue for part of that time and captured the sessions. ... The big picture: Chaplin on set
The Guardian - Feb 28, 2010
Photograph by W. Eugene Smith Charlie Chaplin prepares for his role as Calvero in Limelight. Photograph: W. Eugene Smith/Getty Chaplin, whose Little Tramp ...

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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965

by: Sam Stephenson
For anyone interested in the work of photographer W. Eugene Smith and jazz music this book is a must. I didn't even think twice before ordering it, and that too with the fastest post possible. The documentation Smith did in his loft years is invaluable to photography and jazz students, plus anyone interested in what was going on in non-mainstream New York in those years. The entire 'Loft Project' can be summed up in just word 'passion'. I have read the bool cover to cover three times. I keep it near my jazz CD collection and refer to it many times when playing the music of artisys who played in his loft.
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Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project

Sam Stephenson's dedication and perseverance to bringing W. Eugene Smith's immense "Pittsburgh Project" into view deserves unstinting kudos, praise and thanks from every viewer and photographer who has ever wondered about Smith's Pittsburgh project and asked themselves: "I wonder what happened during those four years? And what about the thousands (15,000? 17,000? 20,000?) of photographs he took?" This book has most of the answers, and while Alan Trachtenberg's essay is very informative, it is Stephenson's documentary digging, discovering, editing and yes, dreaming about what Smith intended that makes this volume so valuable.
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W. Eugene Smith (English and Spanish Edition)

by: Britt Salvesen, Enrica Vigano
W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) revolutionized the photo-essay form with the works he published in Life magazine between 1948 and 1956. This monograph reproduces images from six classic sequences: Country Doctor, which portrays the selfless and sometimes frustrating work of a doctor in rural America; Spanish Village, the most powerful photographic study of 1950s Spain; Nurse Midwife, which examines the life of a black woman in the American south; A Man of Mercy, which documents Dr.
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Minamata: The Story of the Poisoning of a City, and of the People Who Chose to Carry the Burden of Courage.

by: W. Eugene Smith, Aileen M. Smith
This book will never be reprinted, for reasons described in another review. The chances are that there may never be anything like it again either. This was an act of heroism by a photographer who risked everything and was deprived of his health and his life for doing so.It is also one of the most remarkable pieces of documentary photography that's ever been compiled.
The intimacy of the pictures of the afflicted and the drama of the lighting are merged in a burst of sympathy that never gives way to sentimentality.
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