Dream street
Subtitle: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh project
By: edited by Sam Stephenson
Contributors: Stephenson, Sam.; Carnegie Museum of Art.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton; W.W. Norton
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works; Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: "In 1955, having just ended his high-profile but stormy career with Life magazine by resigning, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three weeks in Pittsburgh and produce one hundred photographs for noted journalist and author Stefan Lorant's book commemorating the city's bicentennial. Smith stayed a year, compiling nearly seventeen thousand photographs for what would be the most ambitious photographic essay of his life.

But only a fragment of the work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction that it was his greatest set of photographs. Now, in an astonishing, first-time assemblage of the core images Smith asserted were the "synthesis of the whole," we see not only a portrayal of Pittsburgh but of mid-century, postwar America."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167).
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2001-February 2002 and others.