Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 4,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
W. EUGENE SMITH (1918-1978)
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from A Man of Mercy photo essay in LIFE Magazine. Silver print, the image measuring 13 3/8x10 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
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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).