Eugene Smith, one of the nation’s most acclaimed ... including his renowned 1972 portrait of a mother in Minamata, Japan, bathing a young daughter deformed by mercury poisoning.

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I was fifteen when I first saw the photos of Minamata’s broken bodies. In 1972, Life magazine published W. Eugene Smith’s photographs of villagers in the Japanese fishing town. The Chisso Corporation, ...

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 ...

Japan enjoys a long tradition ... sparked controversy around the world. In 'Minamata,' Johnny Depp portrays American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, who documented one of the worst industrial ...

Eugene Smith’s picture of Tomoko Kamimura, 15, she is being bathed by her mother at their home, in Minamata, Japan. Kamimura had been born with a kind of mercury poisoning that would later come ...

Minamata disease, first diagnosed in 1956, was later linked to the consumption of seafood from the Minamata Bay on Japan's southern main island ... Chisso had American photographer and ...

Almost 2,300 victims were identified as having Minamata disease, with more than 10,000 people receiving compensation from the Chisso corporation. American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith spent several ...

Twelve years after the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami ... where he encountered the work of Eugene Smith and Aileen Mioko Smith in Minamata, a small fishing village poisoned over decades in the ...