Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Eugene Smiths problems at life
From: David Mason <dcm@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:05:13 -0400
References: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOGEMEEDAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net>

"B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> writes:

> The best example of all the idiosyncrasies you site is the Pittsburgh
> project - hired to shoot 100 photos in three weeks, he moved to Pittsburgh
> with thousands of his phono records, and settled in for a year to shoot
> 17,000 images...and never lived to see the project, as he envisioned it,
> published or displayed anywhere.....
>
> But damn, those were amazing photos! :-)

Agreed! what a great body of work. I was fortunate enough to see the
ICP exhibit of the Pittsburgh photos and saw a bit of his
"idiosyncrasies" in the mock-up layouts he made for the project but
later refused to publish.

There is a great book called "Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's
Pittsburgh Project" Edited by Sam Stephenson which I really enjoyed. I
am rather biased toward it as I am a part-time student at the Duke
Center for Documentary Studies which published the book. Still, I
think it is worthwhile for those who are interested.


Its listed somewhere in this site:

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/books/index.html



Cheers,

Dave
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