W. Eugene Smith

Photographer

American·b. 1918

Known for: photo-essay journalism at Life magazine

W. Eugene Smith developed a form of photo-essay journalism at Life magazine that treated the camera as an instrument of moral witness. His essays "Country Doctor" (1948) and "Nurse Midwife" (1951) established the form's possibilities for sustained narrative. His final major project, documenting mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, was published as a book in 1975.

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