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W. EUGENE SMITH (1918–1978)
Mad Eyes, Haiti, 1958-1959
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed c. 1960
image/sheet/flush mount: 18 x 27 in. (45.7 x 68.5 cm.)
Provenance
Private Collection, New York;
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992.
Literature
Lincoln Kirstein, W. Eugene Smith: His Photographs and Notes, Aperture Foundation, New York, 1969, p. 88.
W Eugene Smith, W Eugene Smith Master of the Photographic Essay, Aperture, New York, 1981, p. 189.
Michael Solomon Sachs, W. Eugene Smith: Rebel Photographer, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, 1988, pl. 184.
Ben Maddow, Let Truth Be The Prejudice, W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs, Aperture Foundation, New York, 1998, p. 214.
Gilles Mora, W. Eugene Smith Photographs: 1934-1975, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1998, p. 241.
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