
W. Eugene Smith
American Photographer · 1918–1978
49 works on LinkedCulture
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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Age of Exploration, Zuni, New Mexico
Getty Museum · 1948
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American infantryman Terry Moore holding his BAR rifle while crouching behind rocks as he assesses his attack path towards his objective, the coastal town of Yonaburu
Getty Museum · May 22, 1945
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American Marines on the march during battle against Japanese for Iwo Jima during WWII
Getty Museum · February or March 1945
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American soldiers near smoking, downed aircraft during WWII action on Orote Peninsula
Getty Museum · July or August 1944
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American soldiers struggling to help wounded during WWII action on Orote Peninsula
Getty Museum · July or August 1944
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A soldier is wounded in back of head and the medic puts on an emergency bandage, Japan
Getty Museum · April or May 1945
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Battle of Iwo Jima: Boat showing damage done by Japanese craft
Getty Museum · February or March 1945
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Battle of Okinawa: a child with baby on its back
Getty Museum · April or May 1945
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[Beggar Crawling on Sidewalk, Haiti]
Getty Museum · 1958
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[Birth]
Getty Museum · 1951
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[Black Child on Broken Railroad Tracks]
Getty Museum · about 1955
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Bowery Bum of the Month: Men sitting around cafe
Getty Museum · 1948
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Casualties during WWII action on Orote Peninsula
Getty Museum · July or August 1944
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[Corporate Scene, Architectural Planning Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
Getty Museum · 1955–1956
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[Count Basie]
Getty Museum · 1957–1965
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![[Country Doctor] (84.XP.904.10)](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fa727e18d-6b31-4501-a8bf-a419cdf7dc81%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[Country Doctor] (84.XP.904.10)
Getty Museum · 1948
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[Eyes in Mail Slot]
Getty Museum · 1951–1958
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[Female Deer]
Getty Museum · early 1950s
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[Female Figure]
Getty Museum · early 1950s
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First Communion Dress
Getty Museum · May or June 1950
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Frame church in rural South Carolina
Getty Museum · June or July 1951
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[Frontline Soldier with Canteen at Saipan]
Getty Museum · June 1944
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[Juanita]
Getty Museum · 1953
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Lake Music Festival: Folk singer Uncle Joe Orr, 95 year old farmer who lives with his wife in a cabin on a mountain top in the Blue Ridge, occasionally joins in the mountain festivals, NC
Getty Museum · 1947
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[Little Girl Standing on the Banister of a Staircase]
Getty Museum · early 1950s
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[Little Migrant Girl Carrying Dishes]
Getty Museum · 1953
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[Man and Woman Touching Hands]
Getty Museum · early 1950s
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Men of the 184th Regiment under fire, Japan
Getty Museum · April or May 1945
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[Mental Patient, Haiti]
Getty Museum · 1958–1959
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Monsanto's Operations
Getty Museum · 1953
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Museum at Santa Fe
Getty Museum · 1947
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[Painted Female Nudes]
Getty Museum · early 1960s
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[Pittsburgh]
Getty Museum · 1955–1956
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[Pittsburgh]
Getty Museum · 1955–1956
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[Portrait of Dr. Albert Schweitzer at Lambaréné, Gabon, West Africa]
Getty Museum · 1954
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[Saipan]
Getty Museum · 1944
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Ships in dock at Pearl Harbor
Getty Museum · December 1944–January 1945
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[Spanish Civil Guards]
Getty Museum · 1951
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![[Steel Mill Worker, Pittsburgh]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fbde53f01-81ce-40aa-903c-c3d727966294%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[Steel Mill Worker, Pittsburgh]
Getty Museum · 1955
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Supplies and jeeps ready for loading onto a cargo vessel in P. H.
Getty Museum · December 1944–January 1945
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[The Hands of a Mental Patient Through a Stockade Door, Haiti]
Getty Museum · 1958–1959
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[The Spinner]
Getty Museum · 1950
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[The Wake]
Getty Museum · 1951
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[Train Tracks, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
Getty Museum · 1955–1956
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Untitled
Getty Museum · 1950
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US Marines march past sign reading ROAD EXPOSED TO ENEMY ARTILLERY, KEEP TO RIGHT on their way towards the front lines during the fight to take Okinawa
Getty Museum · April 1945
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[Welsh Miners]
Getty Museum · 1950
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[Woman Playing the Piano]
Getty Museum · early 1950s
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Wreckage on beach as man sleeps in shelter after one of fierce battle against Japanese for Iwo Jima during WWII
Getty Museum · February or March 1945
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