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Even if you don’t know the story of heralded photographer W. Eugene Smith or the Japanese fishing village of Minamata, you are likely familiar with the photograph Tomoko and Mother in the Bath.
The total runtime for Minamata is 115 minutes. Minamata premiered in 2020. War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in ...
Eugene Smith was known for his war photography ... brought global attention to victims of industrial mercury poisoning in Minamata, a Japanese fishing village. Mr. Smith’s earliest known ...
MINAMATA, Kumamoto Prefecture--A deteriorating ... Kamimura, a well-known subject of famed U.S. photographer W. Eugene Smith, is held by her mother in the bath in the horizontally long, cloth ...
American photojournalist Eugene Smith and his wife Aileen helped to bring global attention to the suffering of the victims of Minamata Disease, a neurological illness caused by industrial mercury ...