William Eugene Smith, born on December 30, 1918 and died on October 15, 1978, was an American photojournalist who has been described as perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay. His major photo essays include World War II photographs, the visual stories of an American country doctor and a nurse midwife, the clinic of Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa, the city of Pittsburgh, and the pollution which damaged the health of the residents of Minamata in Japan. His 1948 series Country Doctor, made for Life, is recognized as the first extended editorial photo story.
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In 1984 Smith was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.
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William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918, October 15, 1978) was an American photojournalist.
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Tomoko and Mother in the Bath is a photograph taken by American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith in 1971.
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