From 1957 to 1965, photographer W. Eugene Smith lived in loft space at 821 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Smith had already established himself as a pioneer of the magazine photo essay—a collection of images that told a compelling story. Smith's photo essays appeared most often in Life. Before the rise of the documentary in the early 1960s, with the advent …
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