Dream Street

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W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project

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Dream Street showcases a poignant selection of images from W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh project, undertaken in 1955. Originally commissioned for a bicentennial book, Smith extended his stay to a year, capturing 20,000 photographs reflecting both the city and postwar America. This edition, featuring a foreword by Ross Gay, presents a fresh vision of Smith's ambitious and deeply personal photo essay.
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This book is perfect for readers interested in photography, American history, postwar culture, and urban life. It will appeal to those who appreciate documentary art and the intricate storytelling possible through images.

"Originally published by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001, with the participation of the Collection and W. Eugene Smith Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona."

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New edition of poignant selected images from famed Life photographer W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh project.

In 1955, having just resigned from his high-profile but stormy career with Life Magazine, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three weeks in Pittsburgh and produce one hundred photographs for noted journalist and author Stefan Lorant’s book commemorating the city’s bicentennial. Smith ended up staying a year, compiling twenty thousand images for what would be the most ambitious photographic essay of his life. But only a fragment of this work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction that it was his greatest collection of photographs.

In 2001, Sam Stephenson published for the first time an assemblage of the core images from this project, selections that Smith asserted were the “synthesis of the whole,” presenting not only a portrayal of Pittsburgh but of postwar America. This new edition, updated with a foreword by the poet Ross Gay, offers a fresh vision of Smith's masterpiece.

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Critics praise the book for its compelling portrayal of American city life, touching on themes of community, loneliness, love, growth, and decay. Vicki Goldberg of The New York Times highlights Smith's immense talent and obsessiveness in attempting to "create history." The New Yorker notes the symphonic, multilayered nature of the essay, revealing poignant scenes from industrial Pittsburgh to intimate human moments.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226824833

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 June 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Edition: First Edition, Enlarged

Illustration: 175 halftones, 1 line drawings

Contributors:

By W. Eugene Smith
Edited by Sam Stephenson
Contributions by Alan Trachtenberg
Foreword by Ross Gay

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 241.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 1193g

Pages: 184

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

W. Eugene Smith (1918–78) was an American photographer who worked for Life from 1939 to 1954 and thereafter was affiliated with the Magnum photo agency. Several posthumous overviews of Smith’s work have been published, including The Big Book, a retrospective of his work as he designed it, and a biography, Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs, by Ben Maddow. Sam Stephenson is a writer from North Carolina now based in College Station, TX. He is the author of a biography of Smith, Gene Smith’s Sink, as well as Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project and The Jazz Loft Project: The Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue. He is also the ghostwriter of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, a forthcoming memoir by Lucinda Williams. In 2019, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in progress about the band Jane's Addiction.