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Famously unabashed, W. Eugene Smith is photography's most celebrated humanist. During his reign as a photography essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s and 1950s, he founded himself as a romantic chronicler of individual culture. His images of jazz music artists, disasters, doctors, and midwives revolutionized the role that image making played in journalism, transforming photography for many years to come. In 1997, lured by the intoxicating trail of folks that surfaced from Smith's stupefying archive, Sam Stephenson attempt to research those who realized him from various sides. In Gene Smith's Kitchen sink, Stephenson revives Smith's life and legacy, merging traditional biography with highly untraditional digressions. Traveling across 29 state governments, Japan, and the Pacific, Stephenson monitors down a energetic cast of character types, including the playwright Tennessee Williams, to whom Smith likened himself; the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, with whom he once distributed a chalet; the artist Mary Frank, who was simply committed to his friend Robert Frank; and Thelonious Monk and Sonny Clark, whom Smith documented on surreptitious tapes.
