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W. Eugene Smith 
Nurse Midwife: Maude Callen Eases Pain of Birth, Life and Death (Life, December 3, 1951) 
1951, 3 December (published) 
  
Gelatin silver print 
13 5/8 x 10 1/16 ins 
  
George Eastman Museum 
Estate of N.E. Smith/Black Star: Courtesy George Eastman House. © Heirs of W. Eugene Smith 
  
 
LL/33287 
  
Nurse Midwife was the first serious essay in a mainline American publication to feature an African-American in a professional context. Smith said: "I was fighting racism without ever making racism the point. I had long crusaded against racism, not by hitting people over the head with a hammer, but by compassionate understanding, presenting something that people could learn from, so they could make up their own minds."
 
Henri Cartier-Bresson, in The Concerned Photographer, unp., 265. 
 

 
  
 
  
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