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Also Known As Gene Smith • William Eugene Smith
Born December 20, 1918 • Wichita • Kansas
Died October 15, 1978 (aged 59) • Tucson • Arizona

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The Walk to Paradise Garden, photograph by W. Eugene Smith, 1947.
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Andreas Feininger
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Ernst Haas, photograph by Erich Hartmann.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Self-portrait by André Kertész
André Kertész
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Diane Arbus sits at a table holding a large vintage camera, looking to the side, in a black and white portrait taken in a New York Automat around 1968.
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Jessie Tarbox Beals
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James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey
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Arthur Siegel
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David Seymour.
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David Douglas Duncan
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Bruce Davidson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Aïda Muluneh
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Erich Salomon
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