New edition of poignant selected images from famed Life
photographer W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh project. In
1955, having just resigned from his high-profile but stormy career
with Life Magazine, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three
weeks in Pittsburgh and produce one hundred photographs for noted
journalist and author Stefan Lorant’s book commemorating the
city’s bicentennial. Smith ended up staying a year,
compiling twenty thousand images for what would be the most
ambitious photographic essay of his life. But only a fragment
of this work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction
that it was his greatest collection of photographs. In
2001, Sam Stephenson published for the first time an assemblage of
the core images from this project, selections that Smith asserted
were the “synthesis of the whole,” presenting not only a
portrayal of Pittsburgh but of postwar America. This new
edition, updated with a foreword by the poet Ross Gay, offers
a fresh vision of Smith's masterpiece.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 2023 |
| Photographers: |
W.Eugene Smith
|
| Editors: |
Sam Stephenson
|
| Foreword by: |
Ross Gay
|
| Contributors: |
Alan Trachtenberg
|
| Dimensions: |
279 x 241 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
184 |
| Edition: |
First Edition, Enlarged |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82483-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-226-82483-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780226824833 |
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