First Communion Dress

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First Communion Dress

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W. Eugene Smith

American Photographer · 1918–1978

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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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Date
May or June 1950
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
b27a5a33-1ff9-4387-a817-e9aa6ef319b5

View of a young girl named Lorenza Curiel, wearing a communion dress with a white veil and a crown of flowers, standing with four other children beside her mother who stands with her back to the camera as she locks a wooden door.

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