Dream Street - W. Eugene Smith''s Pittsburgh Project

"Originally published by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001, with the participation of the Collection and W. Eugene Smith Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona."

About the author

W. Eugene Smith (1918-78) was an American photographer who worked for Life from 1939 to 1954 and thereafter was affiliated with the Magnum photo agency. Several posthumous overviews of Smith's work have been published, including The Big Book, a retrospective of his work as he designed it, and a biography, Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs, by Ben Maddow. Sam Stephenson is a writer from North Carolina now based in College Station, TX. He is the author of a biography of Smith, Gene Smith's Sink, as well as Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project and The Jazz Loft Project: The Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue. He is also the ghostwriter of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, a forthcoming memoir by Lucinda Williams. In 2019, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in progress about the band Jane's Addiction.

Product details

• Authors: Mr. Sam Stephenson, Sam Stephenson
• Assisted by: W. Eugene Smith (Photographs), Smith W. Eugene (Photographer), Mr. Sam Stephenson (Editor), Sam Stephenson (Editor), Stephenson Sam (Editor), Gay Ross (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9780226824833
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82483-3
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, Individual photographers, Photographic reportage, Photojournalism and documentary photography