| 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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