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Dream street : W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh project / edited by Sam Stephenson

Title
Dream street : W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh project / edited by Sam Stephenson
Author
Smith, W. Eugene, 1918-1978.
Publication
New York : Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Stephenson, Sam
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • International Center of Photography.
Description
176 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
Summary
"In 1955, having just ended his high-profile but stormy career with Life magazine by resigning, 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 stayed a year, compiling nearly seventeen thousand photographs for what would be the most ambitious photographic essay of his life. But only a fragment of the work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction that it was his greatest set of photographs. Now, in an astonishing, first-time assemblage of the core images Smith asserted were the "synthesis of the whole," we see not only a portrayal of Pittsburgh but of mid-century, postwar America."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative Title
W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh project
Subject
  • Smith, W. Eugene, 1918-1978 > Exhibitions
  • 1900-1999
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.) > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Illustrated works
  • History
  • Pictorial works
  • Illustrated works.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nov. 2001-Feb. 2002, the International Center of Photography, New York, Mar.-June, 2000, and at other locations through Mar., 2003.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 167).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
W. Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh / Sam Stephenson -- Photographs -- Man-breaking city : W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh / Alan Trachtenberg -- W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh layout for Photography annual 1959.
ISBN
0393044084
LCCN
^^2001032584
OCLC
  • 47081265
  • SCSB-12199550
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library