Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View

He is the author of Dream Street: W. 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. . Sam Stephenson is a writer and documentarian born in Washington, North Carolina. Eugene Smith's Pittsbur

As a photo essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s and ’50s, he established himself as an intimate chronicler of human culture. Eugene SmithFamously unabashed, 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 likened himself; the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, with whom he once shared a Swiss chalet; the artist Mary Frank, who was married to his friend Robert Frank; the jazz pianists Thelonious Monk and Sonny Clark, whose music was taped by Smith in his loft; and a series of obscure caregivers who helped keep Smith on his feet. 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. An incisive biography of the prolific photo-essayist W. In Gene Smith’s Sink, Stephenson merges traditional biography with rhythmic digressions to revive Smith’s life and legacy. His death certificate read “stroke,” but, as was said of the immortal jazzman Charlie Parker, Smith died of “everything,&rd

. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965. About the Author Sam Stephenson is a writer and documentarian born in Washington, North Carolina. 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