Passion of W.Eugene Smith – A Sublime Photojournalist
Amer. Army nurse 2nd Lieut. Florence Vehmeier walking past GI w. bullet wound in his stomach & rubber tube taped to his lip which drains his stomach through his nose to bucket on the floor in makeshift hospital in Cens Cathedral, during WWII.
WORLD WAR II. The Pacific Campaign. February 1945. The Battle of Iwo Jima (Japanese island). US Marine demolition team blasting out a cave on Hill 382.
Magnum Photos – W. Eugene Smith
(Died: October 15, 1978, Tucson, AZ Smith was 59 years old.)
(Woman bathing her daughter, a victim of mercury poisoning, Minamata, Japan 1971)
It has been called photojournalism’s Pieta. In 1971, Smith and his wife, photographer Aileen Mioko, moved to the
Japanese village of Minamata for three years.
Many regard this as the first photograph to awaken the world to ecological abuse. Page 525 – The Great Life Photographers.
Charlie CHAPLIN. 1952.
Buster KEATON (left) and Charlie CHAPLIN (right) during the shooting of the movie “Limelight”, starring Charlie CHAPLIN, Sidney CHAPLIN, Claire BLOOM and Buster KEATON.
See more photos of Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight set here.
(Nun Waiting for Survivors, Andrea Doria, 1956)
Minamata Homage to W. Eugene Smith
(More photos here)