“In a depressed era when most young adults grasped for any foothold they could find, the nineteen-year-old Smith had already given up a major university scholarship and challenged a prominent magazine’s editorial boundaries until he was fired. He wouldn’t follow… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
“For the next seven decades the story of Smith attending these sixty-three consecutive shows has been repeated often, including by me. The trouble is,… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
“these entries we can see Smith focusing on the human landscape and the tension he felt between isolation and the teeming churn of collectives,… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
“In a depressed era when most young adults grasped for any foothold they could find, the nineteen-year-old Smith had already given up a major… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
“could be an antidote to clinical depression. Smith fed off risk and nerves for the rest of his life, noticeable early with his cavalier… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I was once present at a lecture that Eugene Smith gave to some students at a school of photography. At the end, they protested… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
