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Battle of Iwo Jima: Boat showing damage done by Japanese craft
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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- February or March 1945
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 5a8882f6-1e64-4827-83a8-13e58c84af68
View of the remains of several Japanese boats, destroyed in the battle of Iwo Jima. The boats float in shallow water along the sandy shoreline, which is littered with debris and rubble from battle. The invasion armada is visible in the distance.
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