Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NC07G85 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is a two-time Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winner.AudioFile Earphones Award winner Coleen Marlo has earned numerous Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards and won an Audie Award for her narration of Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga. He is the author of Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project and The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. . Sam Stephenson is a writer and documentaria
His photographs of war and disaster, villages and metropolises, doctors and midwives, revolutionized the role of images in journalism, transforming photography for decades to come.When Smith died in 1978, he left behind eighteen dollars in the bank and forty-four thousand pounds of archives. The distillation of twenty years of research, Gene Smith’s Sink is an unprecedented look into the photographer’s potent legacy and the subjects around him.. His death certificate read “stroke,” but, as was said of the immortal jazzman Charlie Parker, Smith died of “everything,” from drug and alcohol benders to weeklong work sessions with no sleep.Lured by the intoxicating trail of people that emerged from Smith’s stupefying archive, Sam Stephenson began a quest to trace his footsteps. He was only fifty-nine, but he was flat worn-out. An incisive biography of the prolific photo-essayist W. Traveling across twenty-nine states, Japan, and the Pacific, Stephenson profiles a lively cast of characters, including the playwright Tennessee Williams, to whom Smith liken
He is a two-time Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winner.AudioFile Earphones Award winner Coleen Marlo has earned numerous Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards and won an Audie Award for her narration of Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965. About the Author Sam Stephenson is a writer and documentarian born in Washington, North Carolina. . Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project and The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. He is the author of Dream Street: W