W. Eugene Smith (Web work #6)

W. Eugene Smith has a very interesting work of photography, and was a great photo journalist. His work is very intriguing, and I've personally never seen anything like it.



Because W. Eugene Smith was a photorapher during the time of World War II (Which ended in 1944), his career had surrounded the happenings during the war. Being a photo journalist, he had to put himself in many dangerous situations taking photographs of the happenings in the war. Many of his photographs were of the dead.

Continuing his career, he took photos at hospitals, of doctors and other important things to the American people at the time.

He spend time photographing at a Mental hospital in in Haiti. There was much controversy over this at the time.

Towards the end of his career, he photographed the effects of Mercury poisioning in Minimata, Japan. He had photographed a severly deformed girl being held by her mother in a bathtub. Her parents had requested that it was removed though, which also created a great controversy.

Above: Severly deformed girl being held by her mother in a bathtub.