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Gene Smith's Sink

Written by: Sam Stephenson
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Famously unabashed, W. Eugene Smith is photography's most celebrated humanist. During his reign as a photo essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s and 1950s, he established himself as an intimate chronicler of human culture. His photographs of jazz musicians, disasters, doctors, and midwives revolutionized the role that image making played in journalism, transforming photography for decades to come. In 1997, lured by the intoxicating trail of people that emerged from Smith's stupefying archive, Sam Stephenson set out to research those who knew him from various angles.

In Gene Smith's Sink, Stephenson revives Smith's life and legacy, merging traditional biography with highly untraditional digressions. Traveling across 29 states, Japan, and the Pacific, Stephenson tracks down a lively cast of characters, including the playwright Tennessee Williams, to whom Smith likened himself; the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, with whom he once shared a chalet; the artist Mary Frank, who was married to his friend Robert Frank; and Thelonious Monk and Sonny Clark, whom Smith recorded on surreptitious tapes.

©2017 Sam Stephenson (P)2017 HighBridge, A Division of Recorded Books Art & Literature Photography Celebrity
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Meandering

More of the author than the subject in this biography although there are some interesting characters. One would think that, with access to the archive in Arizona, a richer story of Smith would have emerged. Narrated well though.

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