Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>OK as the uncultured heathen amongst us, which photo is this? This sounds >like the (B&W) photo I saw of a mother bathing a (Hiroshima?) poisoned >child? I am sorry. I should know whether that photo is by Smith or some >other great photographer, but I am... well, uncultured. You're most likely thinking of the correct shot, but it was taken in Minamata Japan and the girl , Tomoko Uemura, was suffering from the effects of severe mercury poisoning. The photo appeared in "Life" among other publications and is featured as the last photo in the book "Let Truth be the Prejudice W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs". Smith had a show by the same name in 1971 at the Jewish Museum in New York, this was prior to the Minamata project. I had the honor to meet him at that show and talk with him for a few seconds, I was 21 at the time and that short conversation is why I still try to take photos today. Neal F