William Eugene Smith(art Rebound King/9 Pib)

William Eugene Smith was born in 1918, Wichita, Kansas and he was dead in 1978. He was an American photojournalist. He was known because he refuses to compromise professional standards and the brutality of World War 2. He was graduated from Wichita North High School in 1936. He began his career in 1936 by taking pictures for two local newspapers, the Eagle and the Beacon. He went to New York City and he began to work for Newsweek and he was known for his perfectionism and for his complicated personality. He was fired because he refuses to use medium format camera and soon he join Life magazine. He resigned from Life because he was wounded in 1942 because he was trying to simulate battle conditions for Parade magazine. Smith joins World War 2 and takes photo of U.S. Marines and Japanese prisoners of war at Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. On Okinawa, he was it by mortar fire. After recovering he joins life again and perfected his photo essay from 1947 to 1954. Smith joined the Magnum photo agency in 1955. He started his document on Pittsburgh there. This project consists of a series of book-length photo essays in which he strove for complete control of his subject matter. Because he likes to consume alcohol and drugs, he gets a massive stroke and he died in 1978, Tucson, Arizona. Almost all of his photography art consist of war condition. The prove is the he’s quite often hit in a war and he was hit in World War 2 because he was taking pictures of U.S marines and Japanese prisoners. He was one from many people who risk his life just to get the picture of the hugest war that has ever happen in this world Smith likes to use miniature cameras which make him fired from Newsweek. He felt that smaller cameras gave him more freedom in seeing. Smith worked with any camera, from a Minox to a 4 X 5 press camera. However, he often used 35mm camera. He often has six or seven cameras around his neck. For once in his life, he had his six or seven cameras hung on his shoulders. W.Eugene Smith has his one quote about art which is "Photo is a small voice, at best, but sometimes - just sometimes - one photograph or a group of them can lure our senses into awareness. Much depends upon the viewer; in some, photographs can summon enough emotion to be a catalyst to thought." Reference http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/eugesmith.htm http://www.magnumphotos.com/archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDeta il_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R139C2T&nm=W.%20Eugene%20Smith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Eugene_Smith http://www.leegallery.com/smith.html http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/smith/smith_suicide_charge.html