Review of Dream street

Dream Street
When I was discovering the world of photography as a young boy in the 1950's and again in the '60s as a young man starting to make a living as a photojournalist, my hero wasW. Eugene Smith.
Smith was an impassioned photographer, who, though not as well remembered today asHenri Cartier-Bresson, was at the time America's preeminent photojournalist. He had a stormy career as a staff photographer forLifemagazine and subsequently became a member of theMagnumphoto agency. HisWWIIimages together with his photo essays on Minnimatta Japan, "Country Doctor", and Albert Schweitzer have become icons of documentary photography.
In 1955 Smith was given an assignment throughMagnumto spend 3 weeks shooting 100 photographs. These were intended to illustrate a forthcoming book commemorating the city of Pittsburgh's bicentennial. Instead, Smith spent more than a year on the project, eventually producing some 17,000 images which he eventually pared down to 2,000 prints.

Smith was ...