...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.
W. Eugene SmithThe journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honestโyes. Objectiveโno.
W. Eugene SmithI've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
W. Eugene SmithI would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
W. Eugene SmithI was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, โThis is warโ-that the people who were in the war would believe that I had truthfully captured what they had gone through I worked in the framework that war is horrible. I want to carry on what I have tried to do in these pictures. War is a concentrated unit in the world and these things are clearly and cleanly seen. Things like race prejudice, poverty, hatred and bigotry are sprawling things in civilian life, and not so easy to define as war.
W. Eugene Smith