WILLIAM EUGENE SMITH
W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) , 1971 (Dated)
Lot #159 |
2025-05-22 |
Chiswick Auctions, London, LDN, UK
Category:
Photograph
Estimate:
GBP 400 - 600 (currency of sale)
USD 537 - 805 (approx.)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Chiswick Auctions
Auction number: Z0DO9JGYLS
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: London, LDN, UK
Start date: 2025-05-22
Currency: GBP
Source:
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 20th Century Art
Department: Photography & Video
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Dimensions: 13.5 x 21.3cm
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
13.5
Width In Centimeters:
21.3
Height In Inches:
5.315
Width In Inches:
8.386
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Year notes: Dated 1971.
Catalog summary
William Eugene Smith W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) TOMOKO AND MOTHER IN THE BATH, MINAMATA, 1971. Silver gelatin print, printed c.1985, image size 13.5 x 21.3cm, caption, including Magnum distribution credit, typed directly onto print verso. As per the lengthy caption, this print was most likely used to publicise the 1985 publication of "W. Eugene Smith: Let Truth Be the Prejudice". The lengthy caption, which includes a short biography about Smith, notes distribution from the Magnum offices in Paris, with the addendum "NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UNITED STATES". The caption includes a description of the industrial mercury poisoning experienced by the Minamata community in the early 1970s; it also details the present image: "Tomako [sic] Uemura a 16 yr old fetal (congenital) minimata disease patient being bathed by her mother. She can neither see nor talk, yet remains a lump of breathing flesh loved by her mother." Ex-collection of Robert Kirschenbaum