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Ships in dock at Pearl Harbor
Creator
W. Eugene SmithAmerican Photographer · 1918–1978
All works by this person →W. Eugene Smith's interest in photography grew out of a boyhood passion for airplanes. His mother, herself an amateur photographer, suggested he make his own photographs of planes rather than borrow money from her to buy photos by mail. Thus began a prolific career that spanned five decades; Smith is said to have made at least twenty thousand negatives in one three-year period alone. Reacting to S
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- December 1944–January 1945
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 27c3ba9b-a2a4-4c9d-8bdd-9f6c4b41504d
Aerial view of Pearl Harbor, with U.S. Naval ships, including an aircraft carrier, docked along two piers on both sides of the image.
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