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LL/27857
W. Eugene Smith
1955
Chalk Drawing on Pavement
[Pittsburgh]

Gelatin silver print
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 162)
 
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?
 
LL/27857


 

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