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W. Eugene Smith 
Chalk Drawing on Pavement (reverse) 
[Pittsburgh] 
1955 
  
Gelatin silver print 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 162) 
  
 
LL/27858 
  
From his "Pittsburgh Series." On a large mount with Estate stamp on verso, and various printed and written information. This is an Exhibition print. Although this was a subject found on a Pittsburgh pavement, those expecting more conventionally documentary subject matter from Smith will be surprised, but this has, to me, an interesting character that prefigures some much later photography. It's a portrait. Was Smith a master of blacks, or what? 
 

 
  
 
  
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