Biography Powerpoint on W. Eugene Smith for Photography Class

1. W. Eugene Smith American Photojournalist (1918-1978)

2. Pre-Word War II Circa 1938: During a game of American Football Circa 1940: American Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson

3. 27 June 1944. Battle of Saipan Island. US Marines WORLD WAR II. The Pacific Campaign.

4. Marine Demolition Team Blasting Out a Cave on Hill 382, Iwo Jima, 1945 March 1945. The Battle of Okinawa .US anti-aerial artillery.

5. Battle of Saipan Island. US Marine holding a wounded and dying baby found in the mountains. June 1944. “I would like that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war – the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.” W. Eugene Smith

6. WWII: The Pacific Campaign Untitled(Terry Moore crouches under shell attack)Okinawa, May 1945 “The belief, the try, a camera and some film - the fragile weapons of my good intentions. With these I fought war. “ W. Eugene Smith

7. “The Walk to Paradise Garden”

8. Steel Worker, Pittsburgh. 1955. The Pittsburgh Project

9. Minamata, Japan “Tomoko in her bath”. 1971.