Sale 2474 - The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks, Apri 19, 2018

118 c W. EUGENE SMITH (1918-1978) Dr. Albert Schweitzer , from A Man of Mercy photo essay in LIFE Magazine. Silver print, the image measuring 13 3 / 8 x10 3 / 8 inches (34x26.4 cm.), with Smith’s block-lettered signature SMITH and the notations Di_X_, in pencil, his Croton-on-Hudson, New York hand stamp, and descriptive and numeric notations, also in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1954   [6,000/9,000] From the photo essay A Man of Mercy: Africa’s Misery Turns Saintly Albert Schweitzer into a Driving Taskmaster, from LIFE Magazine , November 15, 1954. Smith, Master of the Photographic Essay, W. Eugene Smith (Aperture), p. 144 (22:142).