#w eugene smith

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W. Eugene Smith: Thelonius Monk, ca. 1960.

W. Eugene Smith, Hitachi, Japan, 1962. Photograph by Kozo Amano.

fromThe Jazz Loft Project Blog:

It was late in the year of 1961 when W. Eugene Smith and Carole Thomas traveled to Japan. Smith was hired via the fledgling Japanese public relations firm Cosmo PR to produce photographs for a publication on behalf of the firm’s first client, Hitachi. This assignment, like Smith’s Pittsburgh project/expedition/ordeal, started out as a simple one that got complicated and ended up taking the better part of a year to complete. The end result appeared in 1963 as Japan … a chapter of image.