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Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.
W. Eugene Smith
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W. Eugene Smith
Age: 59 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 30
Died: 1978
Died: October 15
Journalist
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War Photographer
Wichita
Kansas
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.
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You can't photograph if you're not in love.
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With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
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My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.
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Hardening of the categories causes art disease.
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