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SMITH,W. EUGENE (1918-1978)
Shipyard, Baltimore. Silver print, 13
1
/
2
x10
1
/
2
inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), with two of Smith’s
hand stamps and the location and notation
Life, in pencil, on verso. Late 1940s
[4,000/6,000]
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SMITH,W. EUGENE (1918-1978)
Man in radiation helmet, from the series “Life
Without Germs.” Silver print, 6
3
/
4
x8
3
/
8
inches
(17.1x21.3 cm.), with Smith’s signature, with
a stylus, on recto (in the image), and with his
credit and copyright hand stamps, as well as
additional hand stamps and notations, in ink,
in Leslie Teicholz’s hand, on verso. 1949;
printed circa 1970
[3,000/4,500]
From Vernon Merritt III (1940-2000), a staff
photographer at Life Magazine from 1966-72.
The photographs in this series, done for Life
Magazine, were taken at the University of Notre
Dame’s Laboratory of Bacteriology.
W. Eugene Smith, Master of the Photographic
Essay, 10:010.
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