Steel worker with goggles, Pittsburgh
Artist
W. Eugene Smith
(American, 1918 - 1978)
Date1955
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 13 × 10 9/16 inches (33.02 × 26.83 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2009.40.3
SignedStamped on sheet verso, middle: "Photograph By / W. Eugene Smith / 134 Old Post Road North / Croton on Hudson / New York / Croton 1-4890", "This Photograph may not be / Reproduced without written consent of / W. Eugene Smith".
InscribedStamped on sheet verso, top: "Stefan Lorant / Collection"
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DescriptionImage of a mustachioed man with goggles and hat; structure and train tracks in background on left.Gallery LabelW. Eugene Smith believed that “the journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach, and it is impossible for him to be completely objective.” After creating some of Life magazine’s most memorable photo essays between 1947 and 1954, Smith was commissioned to photograph the city of Pittsburgh. Obsessed with the project, Smith made more than seventeen thousand photographs over several years. This is one of his most famous: an otherworldly view of a steel worker with flames reflected in his safety goggles.
Copyright© The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith
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