W. Eugene Smith

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American photojournalist (1918-1978)

United States ArtistsLived 1918 to 1978 · aged 59

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Fame54.7

Momentum1.1

Languages24

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Photos 3

A Japanese freighter in Truk Atoll is hit by a torpedo dropped by a U.S. airplane in 1944. By Smith.

One of Smith's photographs of Tomoko Kamimura, a victim of Minamata disease, 1971.

Awards 2

1974Robert Capa Gold Medal

Guggenheim Fellowship

Connected to W. 6

Samar Abu EloufAlso won Robert Capa Gold Medal

Eddie AdamsAlso won Robert Capa Gold Medal

James NachtweyAlso won Robert Capa Gold Medal

Josef KoudelkaAlso won Robert Capa Gold Medal

Paul WatsonAlso won Robert Capa Gold Medal

Raymond DepardonAlso won Robert Capa Gold Medal

About this person

William Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist. He has been described as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay." His major photo essays include World War II photographs, the visual stories of an American country doctor and a nurse midwife, the clinic of Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa, the city of Pittsburgh, and the pollution which damaged the health of the residents of Minamata in Japan. His 1948 series, Country Doctor, photographed for Life, is now recognized as "the first extended editorial photo story".

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United States