Gene Smith's Sink

"In 1977, on the sidewalk outside his loft on 23rd Street in Manhattan, the 58-year-old W. Eugene Smith watched from a wheelchair as some two dozen volunteers—mostly young photography students paying homage—loaded his life’s work into two shipping trucks. Twenty-two tons of materials were packed and driven across the country to a new photography archive called the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona."

From Gene Smith’s Sink: A Wide-Angle View. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright  2017 by Sam Stephenson.


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