W. EUGENE SMITH
1918-1978
Born on the 30th December in Wichita, Kansas, USA.
He was graduated from Wichita North High School in 1936.
When he moved to New York he began working for NewsWeek as a photojournalist and, later, for Life Magazine using a 35mm camera.
He joined the Magnum Photo Agency in 1955.
In 1972, because of his photos of Minamata in Japan, where factory discharging poison causing disease to the population, he was attacked and severe injured.
Two years later he left Minamata to live in New York his last four years of life.
"Neighbor woman leading donkeys during seeding time", 1950
"Weighing tomatoes", 1951
"Girls in dark, sex-segregated classroom in small Spanish village", 1950
"Spanish village"
"A tamed chipanzee hugging a cat"
"Saipan", 1944
"Stone and adobe houses, narrow dirt streets"
"Grain flying in air during winnowing by women in famous Spanish Village essay", 1950