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Age of Exploration, Zuni, New Mexico
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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- 1948
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 2a496f3c-4808-41cc-9f41-bec34b174dd1
View of two children, one with a large shawl over her head and shoulders, hold hands as they walk past three dome-shaped clay ovens. A ladder leands against the side of a brick and adobe building behing them.
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