Smith w eugene and aileen m smith (3 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. First edition. Small oblong softcover. 20 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 8 through December 17, 1981. Features an essay by Jeanne C. Finley. Includes 10 black and white images. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Softcover. 192 pages. The simultaneous paperback issue. Features text by Aileen M. Smith that accompanies her husband's heart wrenching black and white images which showed the damages from chemical poisoning to the Japanese island Kyushu. A very good copy in wrappers with edge wear and some of the usual issues with the lamination and with the ownership signature of photographer Barbara Crane to the front free endpaper Internally a clean copy. There was a recently released well received movie about Minamata starring Johnny Deep as Smith. (Roth 232-233).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (An Alskog-Sensorium Book), 1975 (first edition). Large quarto, 192 pages, extensively illustrated with photographs by the authors. Synthetic cloth lettered in white on the spine and in blind on the front cover; ownership signature on the half-title; a near-fine copy with the excellent unclipped dustwrapper (slightly chipped and rubbed at the extremities, with a short tear to the front bottom corner sealed with clear tape on the verso). 'Minamata is a fishing and farming town on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. Its people joined the industrial age when the Chisso Corporation built a chemical factory there. The disaster that then befell them, and the ways in which some have managed to respond, reach far beyond Japan. Many individuals fell ill with the same symptoms: limbs and lips tingled and then became numb; speech slurred; motor functions went out of control. Some died. Minamata's disease was recognized as methyl mercury poisoning from industrial wastes. As groups of victims pressed a turbulent, multi-sided crusade to force industry and government to take responsibility, W. Eugene Smith and his wife, Aileen, moved to Minamata. The result of their collaboration is an enduring document that crowns the work of one of the world's great photographers' (from the dustwrapper blurb).…