first edition Quarto: black cloth in dust jacket; 176 pages
2005 · NY
by SMITH, W. Eugene
NY: W.W. Norton, 2005. First Edition, first printing. W. Eugene Smith's exhaustive photo essay of "Pittsburgh," undertaken for Magnum from 1955-1957 shortly after he left LIFE magazine following a dispute with editors, eventually captured about 17,000 photographs. Smith documented a vibrant industrial metropolis, its steel mills, its people, its scenery-the most comprehensive visual chronicle ever made of an American city in motion and would be the most ambitious photographic essay of his life. Now, in an astonishing, first-time assemblage of the core images Smith asserted were the "synthesis of the whole," we see a portrayal not only of Pittsburgh but also of mid-century, postwar America. Quarto: black cloth in dust jacket; 176 pages. Edited by Sam Stephenson. Illustrated.. Near fine in a near fine d/j. A very nice copy!
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