An image taken in 1934 by W. Eugene Smith of an irrigation trough in a park in Wichita, Kan. The New York Times “Morgue” still has the rare, original print.

From 1957 to 1965, W. Eugene Smith took thousands of photographs and recorded thousands of hours of audio in his loft building, capturing the legendary musicians of the day. Smith exposed 1,447 rolls ...

W. Eugene Smith American, 1918–1978 Dance of the Flaming Coke, from the Pittsburgh series, 1955 Medium Photographs, Gelatin silver print; printed c.1970 Size 8.13 x 13 in. (20.7 x 33 cm.) Markings ...

W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) is regarded as one of the foremost photojournalists of his generation. He is best known for his photo essays in Life magazine throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Smith was also ...

In 1957, former Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith moved out of the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, and into a dilapidated, five-story loft ...

Mounted. Signed with stylus on print recto. Photographer's credit stamp with title in pencil on mount verso.Illus: Gilles Mora & John T. Hill, W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975 (Harry N. Abrams, ...

Ten or 12 years ago, my wife and I drove north through New York State for our summer vacation. When we got to Rochester, we visited the George Eastman House, the world’s oldest museum of photography, ...

Yet here, divorced from the context of Life magazine photo essays, the individual frames reveal Smith to be not just an emphatic photojournalist but a wholly brilliant artist.

Johnny Depp stars as heralded photographer W. Eugene Smith in "Minamata," from director Andrew Levitas, which arrives in theaters Feb. 11.

by R.C. Baker July 2, 2008 Smith's Reign of Chemistry—laundry-detergent production at Monsanto, 1953Heirs of W. Eugene Smith, Courtesy Silverstein Photography ...