Let Truth Be The Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs - Softcover

Ben Maddow is a prize-winning poet and short-story writer, an essayist and critic of photography. During his career, he has been a film director and producer, painter and photocollagist, and the author of some twenty screenplays including the classic Asphalt Jungle (with John Huston) and Intruder in the Dust. He has written several novels as well as the award-winning biography Edward Weston, Fifty Years.

"In Eugene Smith's work the world found an important aspect of America-- its longstanding moral passion. He hungered after that conclusive, suggestive moment of visual truth; he sought through pictures a précis of one then another aspect of our humanity. And he succeeded in that search-- giving us in sum a broad and deep rendering of this life's thickly textured particulars. We are much indebted to him."--Robert Coles, author of Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime

"Gene Smith is reviewed today as a shining knight of light. He explored photography's power to project human drama and emotion. He succeeded in raising our level of conscience and he himself perished too soon, paying the price."--Cornell Capa, Director, International Center of Photography

"Gene Smith was perhaps the photographer who tried most heroically to make the magazine photo story lead the standards of coherence, intensity, and personal accountability that one expects of a work of art."--John Szarkowski, Director, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art