Details
W. EUGENE SMITH (1918–1978)
Albert Schweitzer, Africa, 1954
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed with stylus (recto); stamped photographer's copyright credit (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 8 3/4 x 13 in. (22.2 x 33 cm.)
mount: 13 3/4 x 17 in. (34.8 x 43.1 cm.)
Provenance
Wach Gallery, Avon Lake, Ohio;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988.
Literature
W. Eugene Smith, 'Man of Mercy,' Life, vol. 37, no. 20, November 15, 1954, pp. 170-171.
William S. Johnson, W. Eugene Smith: Master of the Photographic Essay, Aperture, New York, 1981, cat. no. 22:164, p. 146.
Exhibited
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, An American Portrait: Photographs from the Collection of Diann and Thomas Mann, April 1–June 12, 1994, no. 12.

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