Dream street : W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh project / edited by Sam Stephenson.

Main entry:

Smith, W. Eugene, 1918-1978.

Title & Author:

Dream street : W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh project / edited by Sam Stephenson.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton, 2001.

Description:

176 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Series:

A Lyndhurst book

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2001-February 2002 and others.
Includes bibliographical references (page 167).
W. Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh / Sam Stephenson -- Photographs -- Man-breaking city : W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh / Alan Trachtenberg -- W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh layout for Photography annual 1959.

Summary:

"In 1955, having just ended his high-profile but stormy career with Life magazine by resigning, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three weeks in Pittsburgh and produce one hundred photographs for noted journalist and author Stefan Lorant's book commemorating the city's bicentennial. Smith stayed a year, compiling nearly seventeen thousand photographs for what would be the most ambitious photographic essay of his life. But only a fragment of the work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction that it was his greatest set of photographs. Now, in an astonishing, first-time assemblage of the core images Smith asserted were the "synthesis of the whole," we see not only a portrayal of Pittsburgh but of mid-century, postwar America."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0393044084
9780393044089

Subject:

Manners and customs
Pittsburgh (Pa.) History 20th century Pictorial works.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) Social life and customs 20th century Pictorial works.
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Stephenson, Sam.
Carnegie Museum of Art.
Lyndhurst book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233244
Call No.: TR140.S663 S65 2001
Status: Available

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