Lot 64
  • 64

W. Eugene Smith 1918-1978

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • W. Eugene Smith
  • 'THE SPINNER' (FROM 'SPANISH VILLAGE' ESSAY)
signed by the photographer with a stylus on the image, mounted, annotated 'one of two photos traded to Dick Swift by W. Eugene Smith 1975,' probably by the photographer, in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1951, printed later

Literature

Other prints of this image:

William S. Johnson, W. Eugene Smith: Master of The Photographic Essay (Aperture, 1981), cover and 13.038

Edward Steichen, Memorable Life Photographers (The Museum of Modern Art, 1951), unpaginated

Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, eds., W. Eugene Smith: Photographs, 1934-1975 (Paris and New York, 1998), p. 115

W. Eugene Smith: His Photographs and Notes (Aperture, 1969), p. 45

Ben Maddow, Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs (Aperture, 1986), p. 159

Robert A. Sobieszek, Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections (New York, 1985), p. 344