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Frame church in rural South Carolina
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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- June or July 1951
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 8749663f-5e21-45f5-9ec0-def4daa27ab2
View of the front of a white frame church in Berkeley County, South Carolina, used by Nurse and Midwife Maude Callen as a makeshift clinic for her patients in rural South Carolina. Two other buildings, including a school, are visible along the edges of a dirt square to the right of the church building,
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