William Eugene Smith Famous Photographers

William Eugene Smith was born December 30, 1918 in the town called Wichita. At age 14, his lifelong dream was aviation. He took the camera and the parents took photos of aircraft at the airport. Love the photos it is passed from a mother who loved to take pictures. Silent later passion for photography has eclipsed all other addictions Eugene. Eugene Smith, he started an apprenticeship in a local newspaper photographer «Eagle» and «Beacon». Basically, he consecrated the sport aviation. As well they have been sealed difficult days of his countrymen during the Great Depression.

In 1936 Smith was accepted at Notre Dame University. His photographs are so impressed with the faculty and administration that he was granted a special program in photography. But a year later, Eugene decided that this program is too banal for him and dropped out. After that, Eugene Smith went to New York. He took a job in the weekly «Newsweek». But very soon he was fired. Eugene refused to stop using the work of a miniature camera. She got the coveted free, but for whom they sacrificed a formal quality prints.

In 1942, Smith became a war photographer. He visited with dozens of military operations in the Pacific, fighting in Saipan, Guam, Iwo Dzime. In 1945, Eugene Smith, was seriously wounded by fragments of Japanese shells. After that, two years, they were transferred to 32 operations. He could not take off, and nobody could say for sure whether he would ever return to a favorite cause. And after a while he went for a walk with the children and returned with one of his most famous photographers. It was called "A Walk in the Garden of Eden." It was she who became the most famous of his works.

From 1947 to 1954, Smith again worked in the magazine «Life». And in 1971 he again went to Japan. A year later, Eugene Smith guards severely beat the company «Chisso». He went to USA for treatment. Here he taught, finished the text of their books, and published photographs. William Eugene Smith died October 15, 1978. The cause of death was an old injury, a complication which was caused by alcohol and drug abuse.