W. Eugene Smith: Through Darkness & Light Portfolio

Portfolio of Five Hand-Pulled Dust-Grain Photogravures
Image Size: Varied (listed below)
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches
Edition of 150 + 30 Artist Proofs
Signed by Kevin Smith

Photogravures included in this portfolio:
Women gather to mourn an old man's death, 1950, from the series, Spanish Village
Image Size: 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches

Dr. Ceriani taking a short cut from house to hospital, 1950, from the series, Country Doctor
Image Size: 8 11/16 x 10 3/4 inches

Welsh Miners, 1950, from the series Great Britain
Image Size: 8 11/16 x 10 3/4 inches

Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene, 1954
Image Size: 11 7/8 x 8 3/16 inches

Walk to Paradise Garden, 1946
Image Size: 9 13/16 x 7 15/16 inches

William Eugene Smith (b. 1918, Wichita, Kansas; d. 1978, Tucson, Arizona) took his first photographs at the age of 15 for two local newspapers. In 1936 Smith entered Notre Dame University in Wichita, where a special photographic scholarship was created for him. A year later he left the university and went to New York City, and after studying with Helene Sanders at the New York Institute of Photography, in 1937 he began working for News-Week (later Newsweek), worked as a war correspondent for Flying magazine, and Life, becoming a full member of Magnum Photos in 1957. His archives are held by the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Today, Smith’s legacy lives on through the W. Eugene Smith Fund to promote humanistic photography, founded in 1980, which awards photographers for exceptional accomplishments in the field.