Three generations of Welsh Miners, 1950

Details

W. EUGENE SMITH (1918-1978)
Three generations of Welsh Miners, 1950
oversized gelatin silver print, printed later
annotated 'No Ferra and wash' in ink (in the margin); notation 'GB-1-A4' in pencil and Estate stamps (on the verso)
20½ x 25 3/8in. (52 x 64.5cm.)

Provenance

Acquired directly from the Estate of the artist

Literature

W. Eugene Smith: His Photographs and Notes, Aperture, 1969, n.p.; Johnson, W. Eugene Smith: Master of the Photographic Essay, Aperture, 1981, cat. no. 12:021, p. 72

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Lot Essay

In Gene's photographs there is something which throbs, something always tremulant. They are taken between the shirt and the skin.
Anchored between the shirt and the skin---at the heart---his camera moves even more by its passionate integrity. HENRI CARTIER- BRESSON

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