W. Eugene Smith, American Photojournalist among his most notable attributes covered the brutal conditions of WWII. Then later the nocturnal jazz scene and street photography. Developing well over 40,000 photographs between 1957 to 1965 alone of striking photographs from his high rise loft window of passerbys' on the street below. And in a letter he wrote to his friend Ansel Adam's sums up why, "Always there is the window. It forever seduces me away from my work in this cold water flat. I breathe and smile and quicken and languish in appreciation of it, the proscenium arch with me on the third stage looking it down and up and bent along the sides and the whole audience in performance down before me, an ever changing pandemonium of delicate details and habitual rhythms.” Read a fascinating New York Times article here that synopsizes the rise and fall of what is tokenly referred to as Smith's Jazz Loft Project. Listen to a couple audio recordings Smith did during some of those late night jam sessions here and listen to NPR here. Photographs by W. Eugene Smith:
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