[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Love his photographs. The ones of the mercury-in-the-fish causing poisoning from Japan are heart-rending.

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Tomoko Uemura being bathed by her mother, taken by W. Eugene Smith for Life magazine in 1971. On the Japanese Island of Kyushu, an outwardly healthy mother bathes her fetal-poisoned 16 year old daughter, crippled and blind since birth due to environmental industrial mercury poisoning in the local Minamata, Japan, water supply. This may be the first environmental pollution photojournalism.

William Eugene Smith, who was beaten by goons hired by the offending chemical company, received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for “photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” Absolutely moving picture...

[beaversmom]

Thanks for posting that story and pic.

[submarinerswife]

Some of the pictures look like Hollywood movie still shots. What a life this man must have had.