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Video Breakdown
00:00 Intro.
02:13 A Pittsburgh That Never Was.
06:30 Communicating Ideas Through Images.
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11:18 Starting or Organising a Photo Project.
15:56 Outro.
These Photos Destroyed This Photographer's Career.
By Tatiana Hopper
December 2023
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This will be the last video of the year, wishing everyone a great new year ahead. And if there’s anything you really really want to watch on the channel in 2024 let me know below! Which photobooks should we feature?Peace ✌🏻
Would absolutely love a feature of my favorite photographer Jack Davison.
Thanks for your videos, and I wish you a happy new year
Maybe somebody more modern, like Jonas Bendiksen "Veles"? Could be an interesting subject in the age of AI.
Happy New Year Tatiana
I would love to see a feature on someone more modern too. Trent Parke and his book ‘The Black Rose’ is a special one 👌
Hello from Pittsburgh!
Excellent overview of Smith's time here in the Steel City. His essay has been called "The greatest failure in photography." This means that despite his blood, sweat, and toil, tens of thousands of images later, nobody at Life Magazine could ever assemble a concise narrative among the work. His images from Pittsburgh are now iconic, yet they are not a classic picture story as it was defined at that time. Regardless, Smith remains one of those rare individuals whose life will be analyzed by scholars forever. He was obsessive, compulsive, and driven nearly to madness in his quest for perfection in his stories.
May you have a wonderful New Year!
Couldn’t have written it better Terry and greetings to Pittsburgh, wishing you all the best in this new year ahead and thanks for taking the time to watch the channel!
gene's alcohol addiction and printing ethic for whatever psch reasons did him in
I sometimes feel, in today's 'photography everywhere world' that the understanding of what constitutes "Art photography" is blurred (excuse the pun), we're all artists these days or so we're led to believe. Personally I'm not convinced, it's for others to decide what's art and what's not. But in my mind Gene Smith's images are still head and shoulders above 99.99999% of all the images I see. A true genius of photography. The craft, the vision, the commitment, the motive etc etc
The tiny, hard to read text in these videos does a disservice to the brilliant content and otherwise overall stellar production value of the work. I watch anyway. So good. Please consider bumping up a few sizes. Happy New Year
Thank you for your feedback Doug where are you watching the videos on a smartphone ? I appreciate you taking your time to watch it, cheers and a happy new year ahead :)
iPad mini. 😊
Wow! That was fascinating and your storytelling of Eugene Smith’s life and obsession was a delight. Your advice towards the end - how to pursue a theme and make sense of the world through photography was a surprise and a most welcome one. As far as I can tell you and your channel are one of a kind and we’re lucky to have you. Thanks again.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your comment and words, wishing you all the best and thank you for watching the channel!
Hi Tatiana, thanks for a wonderful glimpse into the work of this photographer. I am always stunned by black & white street and environmental photography from bygone eras, when simpler equipment and options made for fantastic close ups of life through the eyes of the camera holder. I have a fondness for Pittsburgh having visited many times (I am there about twice a year) and find it interesting on many levels. I live near Chicago and the mountainous landscape of Pittsburgh is a major contrast from the mostly flat one here. Chicago is a great city to photograph as well but something about Pittsburgh keeps much of the terrain back in the past and that makes it a great subject to capture. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to more videos by you. Thanks.
Thank you for watching and commenting, greetings to Chicago, best to you!
this channel is a blessing! thank you so much for sharing this type of content, so well structured and unique ❤
Thank you so much Lola! I really appreciate it :)
Hi Tatiana! I love this video as it hits very close to home for me. Having grown up in a steel town about an hour from Pittsburgh, I can relate to the images Mr. Smith has taken. Your presentation is awesome and your perspective is spot on. I hope your holidays have been enjoyable and I wish you and yours a very happy and safe New Year! Thank you for all that you do! ✌️🌹
Oh I didn’t know that so definitely there’s a certain familiarity you must feel with these images or the atmosphere they represent, thank you so much for watching the channel my friend and for your support along this year; hope your holidays are being good and I wish you nothing but the best for 2024, God bless!
Thank you, thank you thank you Ms. Hopper for this excellent video. I'm a retired photojournalist who was very much influenced by Smith and the Pittsburgh essay to me is a masterpiece. I have the 1959 Photography Annual which has it as laid out by him. It's so sad that the essay basically destroyed his life and career.
I know, it’s worth to ask the question when is it enough? When should we stop? When does love overcome deadlines and rationality in a sense , thanks for watching and let me tell you I appreciate your words!
Maestro Ivo Saglietti, who died on 2 December, used to say: "Black is the colour of despair, while white is the colour of hope. Between the two, I would add, lie all the shades of the human soul. A great new year ahead and thanks again for your fantastic videos. Edoardo
Amazing quote I had never heard of it, thank you for watching and happy new year to you!
Well done Tatiana. Thanks for what you do. Happy New Year.
Thank you so much and a happy new year to you too :)
Thanks so much for this video and all the others, the photos are truly inspiring. I wish you a great year
Thank you so much Pierre! Wishing you a happy new year as well.
Tatiana! Wonderful! Three weeks ago I picked through your video on w.eugene smith as part of a study on life magazine called for research into the man. Well right away, my ears pricked up, as I knew I had an excuse to spend some time with a T.Hopper video during the desolate landscape of finals. Your channel is my secret weapon as I plough through photography school. I tip off some fellow students, but never professors ahah. Maybe when I graduate I'll tell them, as they certainly would love your shows.
That’s great, I’m happy the videos are helpful and keep tipping people off hopefully it’s helpful to more people, thanks for taking your time to watch the videos, all the best!
A wonderful next year to you, Tatiana, and.... this video was a wonderful gift to us, thank you 👏👏👏👏
Thank you Maurizio happy new year to you!
Love this, I was just reading his aperture magazine this is a great insight
Excellent essay, though I wouldn’t go so far as saying his career was destroyed. He went on to produce many more acclaimed projects, including the Minamata work.
Of course it was more for titling effects, thanks for watching!
As mentioned by someone else here, Smith’s work on Minimata was his final major opus. The photograph "Tomoko and Mother in the Bath" is one of the most famous images made in the 20th century. Although your video’s content doesn’t really state that Smith’s career was negatively impacted by the Pittsburgh Project, the title certainly does imply that.
Minimata the book has long been out of print and further reproduction of the image "Tomoko and Mother in the Bath" has been halted at the family’s request. However, if you can locate the book, it is quite moving.
Thanks for a great year of work … looking forward to seeing more of your fine videos. Happy New Year! 📷🙂
Thank you so much for watching, happy new year! :)
I've had projects become overwhelming. Mostly due to my own disorder! Eugene is one of my top 3 favorite photographers
Happy New Year T! Hope you keep putting out more of these beautiful videos in this new year of 2024, your editing and cinematography has definitely improved this last year (or so I think), loved this video and the tragic but at the same time brilliant tale of Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh!
Thank you will do, appreciate your comment!
Very cool topic, and the notes on organizing projects are helpful. Thanks!
Glad it was thank you so much for watching!
Happy new year Tatiana!
Happy New Year to you too :)
Great video. Lots of depth to his story, and loads of depth to Eugene’s photos 📸
Thank you so much Pat, appreciate it!
Thank you for the video. Always a pleasure to watch & learn from you. I don't always comment but I always like.
Thank you so much, I appreciate you taking the time to watch and liking, wishing you the best!
Thanks for your brilliantly bringing this to light. When I see work like this, I wonder if there is anything of similar quality being made now. Perhaps it just takes time to appreciate social realism as art and not just documentary.
Happy New Year Tatiana, glad to find a new video from you, especially one on Eugene Smith. His next act was his self exile in the Jazz Loft, hanging out with, among others, Thelonius Monk. But his final act was glorious. Minamata.
Couldn’t agree more, I watched the movie where Johnny Depp plays Smith during the time he was photographing minamata, very powerful work. I recommend to give some context to it all. Thanks so much for watching, best to you and a happy new year ahead!
Great mini documentary about an amazing and groundbreaking photojournalist. There was fantastic biography photo book about W. Eugene Smith, featuring many of photo assignments from his first to final one Minamata. Although Smith was a powerful documentarian, Country Doctor 1948 and Nurse Midwife 1951 for Life magazine, W. Eugene Smith felt his photographs should've been full page instead being cropped to fit into the magazine. At times, he could be very egotistical. Still, W. Eugene Smith was the greatest photojournalist of the 20th century!
Another great video Tatiana! Back in the 80s I saw an exhibition of Smith’s work at ICP. Funny Smith felt that way about his Pittsburgh work, since less than 20 years later he did his coverage of Minimata in Japan which was a work all by itself.
Happy New Year to you too and see you in 2024! Peace!
Thank you so much for watching, I would love to see an exhibition of his work one day too, happy new year to you too :)
Enlightening video! Happy New Year
Thank you Charles, happy new year!
Another great, insightful video. Love the final section about how to think about projects.
Wishing you a productive, creative, joyful, and fun 2024.
Thank you so much Fernando, I really appreciate that and I’m wishing you a happy new year ahead!
another well told story which is always the highlight of my day. was extremely impressed when I saw the LP covers you were laying on to see so many shared interests and especially to see that one of a younger generation would select a great LP by Tom Paxton well done !
Amazing David, I’m a huge music fan as you probably guessed from watching the channel and the music I use often, I love older groups like Simon and Garfunkel, genres that are not so popular today and a few forgotten names that I learned through friends and family, glad to know you’re a fellow music fan! Best to you and thank you so much for watching!
Brilliant commentary! Never heard of him and am already obsessed!
Awesome, thanks for watching!
Hey I'm really digging your videos, you definitely deserve more views for the content quality.
Quick note on the p3200, If you get your film developed at a lab there's a good chance they developed it at 800 iso instead of 3200. It's an issue I had, it's actually an 800 iso film where p stands for push like push to 3200. Since a lot of labs charge for pushing I think they default to official 800 rather than the number on the box.
Apologies if you already know this, you seem very knowledgeable!
Smith is the man! I love the videos you do on him. So inspiring!!!!
Thank you so much !
Happy new year thank you for the great/interesting content
Thank you Carl! Same to you!
Thank you Tatiana for this excellent video, I've been a fan of Smith's since the late 1970's when a photographer friend of mine at the time turned me on to his amazing work, I have to admit I didn't know to much about his personal life at the time but his awesome images captured my eye immediately. Have a wonderful New Year my friend.
Thank you for your comment Rich, I’m glad the video gave some depth or perspective over that troubled personal side of his life, best to you and a happy new year!
Great episode. Happy new year Tatiana
Thank you Stefan, happy new year to you!
Beautiful way of ending the new year! Could totally relate with the feeling of overwhelm when it comes to starting a big project. Nevertheless, the insights you shared are really helpful and I will try them out. Happy new year to everyone! See you in 2024! 🎉
Thank you so much for watching and also for becoming a member during this year of 2023! I really appreciate it and I’m glad you find the videos helpful, all the best to you in 2024!
I love these! They have that gritty pictorialist style.
a great review, and loved your parts, in semi-shadow, with your gesticulating hands, so calming; I am a architecture and object photographer(cars, tools, boats)myself, and shoot in lots of formats, MF and mirrorless, so a great inspiration, love the contrasty black and white shots, very Studio, Industry, Nature, and architectural based, like the SINA of the acronym sinar, as in the Large format camera brand; and a real exemplar of it, very 50's and 60's themed.
Thank you Andy, best to you.
Great subject, mindblowing pictures, pity about the interruption.
Wonderful as always! Thanks again! Greetings from Belgium!
Thank you so much, greetings to Belgium! :)
Happy new year Tatiana. I enjoy your content and look forward to more in 2024.
Thank you William, wishing you a happy new year as well!
Another great video! Have a prosperous new year
Thank you so much wishing you the same!
Eugene Smith was the reason I really picked up a camera. I would love to know more about the film he used and paper he liked.
The power of his compositions is absolutely crushing...
Agreed!
Excellent work. ❤❤❤
Thank you so much!
Thanks, I enjoyed that. I was aware of his Minamata work and he is an exceptional photographer.
Agreed he was an exceptional photographer!
Tatiana : I learn so much from you. Thank you.
RS. Canada
Thank you Richard! Really appreciate it!
This man took awesome photos. These images are taken with heart and mind and the results prove it.
Couldn't agree more! Thanks!
Happy New Year. 🎉. Thank you for the video on Eugene Smith. I would like your take on Keith Carter for a 2024 video. Your insights are always interesting and lets me think about photography in a creative way. A muse is important to art. Thanks for being important and extraordinary.
Thank you so much Cal, I really appreciate it and I wish you a happy 2024!
Great video and great subject. He is one of my favourite photographers but I had never heard of this project. I think I have to get a biography too. Have you done a video on Sylvia Plachy. I love her approach and have the Unguided Tour. Two other female photographers Iv’e come to know of recently are Chloe Jafé and Olga Karlovac. They have both published a trilogy this year. Very different styles and very different stories. Both projects are extremely personal. Thanks for all the hard work in production and research. All the best for 2024🎉🎉
Thank you so much Roger, I really appreciate it I have heard of Sylvia’s work and of Olga Karlovsc I made a video about her about a month or so ago, really fantastic images, wishing you all the best in this new year and thank you for watching the channel!
@@TatianaHopper haha… i probably learned about Olga from you. Chloe Jafé went to Japan in 2013 to photograph the wives of Yakuza. She had no connections but somehow her persistence in pursuing this interested a Yakuza boss enough to meet her. The first book of a trilogy are the photographs she made with Yakuza and their wives. I think you would enjoy Sylvia Plachy.
The images. How? Amazing. Just amazing. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
I want to thank you, not only for making beautiful videos, but also for not adding irrelevant music in the background of them -- which is pretty rare these days, believe me. I'm really fed up with people adding dramatic piano or royalty free cheapo music WHEN they are talking. Happy new year!
Thank you!
WOW!… I love these shots, absolutely breathtaking, and your breakdown is excellent. I'm glad Smith stuck to his guns… Going to look more into Eugene Smith. Happy New Year… Keep on keeping on. Peace
Thanks so much for watching! Happy New Year to you too, best!
Wow, I did not know of Mr. Smith till I saw this - very, very compelling photographs. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching Steve, check out the other doc on my channel about him which goes deep into his career titled “the genius of Eugene Smith”.
Extraordinary, thank you Tatiana.
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for another interesting video, Tatiana! Have a great long weekend and a good Hogmanay 😊.
Thank you Alan! Same to you! :)
Happy New Year when it comes 🍻
Happy New Year to you Alex!
Thank you for this.
Thank you for watching!
Very nice thank you, by the way I've been trying to find more about Eugene's term you mentioned of "equilibriums of paradox", does this term actually appear verbatim in the book Dream Street? Happy New Year to you too.
It does, in the first pages of the introduction where they talk about how Smith saw the city, thanks for watching, best to you!
@@TatianaHopper tnx, so is it not Eugene that used/came up with this term but the editor curating this book to describe how Eugene saw the city? You got me a bit confused there, as you wrote ´they’
@@dimitristsagdis7340 sorry my fault, Eugene smith did you use this expression in the book. It’s actually under quotations if I remember correctly.
@@TatianaHopper tnx
Woman, first of all your work is amazing and I thank you so much for introduce me to new photographers! Where do you get the music that you used, I find that most sound galleries are kind of basic when it comes to their music selection! Do you use any in particular? Or the music that you used is copyrighted?
Fantastic video!
Thank you Alex!
Wow, umm, first I am of Gene's generation, maybe ten years younger. I was a darkroom in the bathroom kid shooting 120 orthochromatic film and making contact prints because I had no money for enlarging paper, much less an enlarger (oh frabjous day). I read all the photo magazines and their annual compilations (that I could ill afford, but hey, eating well was over rated) I can rattle off all the important names from Wee Gee to David Douglas Duncan (and see their photos in my minds eye as I type this)
Yes, Gene was obsessive, difficult, yadda yadda. So were Da Vinci and Van Gogh (shrug)
But, the point I want to make is that I spent 16 years of my life in foundries and heavy manufacturing. These dark, obsessive photos make the steel workers look like slaves in some sword and sorcery pot boiler involving dragons. The work is/was hot, heavy, and dangerous if you do not know what you are doing. But, it bought the families of these men an upper middle class living. And this was the reason they were there. Most of them being without much of an education, except for the steel miils they would have been working for starvation wages elsewhere.
In my city, Saginaw, Michigan in the late 50's the plant workers there had the highest annual income in the country for factory/foundry workers. If you were a skilled trades worker in a Saginaw plant you made as much as a doctor or lawyer in those days. Most workers had a new car, a snowmobile, a boat, and owned or leased a summer cottage up North.
It was the reason I was there for 16 years. I did not blow my money on those toys and worked on getting university degrees and eventually moved on because I recognized that heavy manufacturing was a dead end.
Those high contrast B&W photographs of steel workers are priceless.
Some of my favourites of this book!
I finally know now who took that iconic photograph of the 3 Spainish soldiers! Thank you Ta.
No worries, if you want to know more check out the other video I have titled the genius of Eugene smith, shows a few more images of his Spanish essay. Best
Would enjoy your insights into the photographs of David Douglas Duncan.
I’ll need to research that one :)
Duncan was a Life Magazine photographer best know for his photos from The Korean and Vietnam Wars. He was also a personal friend and neighbor of Pablo Picasso and photographed the artist at work for years.@@TatianaHopper
Thanks for the video. Smith is one of my top 5 favorite photographers. It's very difficult to find any books on him without having to order it. It's a shame so many big retailers have succumbed to carrying trendy books that teach us nothing. "Nice coffee table book on walking tours of London." Yawn.
I got this particular one at Amazon, if you’re interested it’s worth having a look, there might be more, I believe I left the link in the video’s description thanks so much for watching!
@@TatianaHopperThanks 🙏
I'm 30 seconds in and it's alreadt obvious that this guy's photos are _terrific._
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There is always a price to pay and Eugene Smith made images that reflected his own vision.
He may have not been an easy man, but he had a great eye and technique
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Do you ever worry about being demonetized for using copy-writ songs? I love your videos!!!!
This wasn’t copyrighted, the song was provided to me by Tunetank who have sponsored a segment in this video, check the description for more info if you’re interested :)
Thanks. Amazon just got a book order from me.
Amazing David, I hope you enjoy it that’s actually where I ordered mine from :)
Eugene Smith was special ....
everyone should see this smith in wales????
What about Minamata ?
The movie not light - but I must-see.
I watched the movie I think it was good and it gave a lot of context to the events surrounding that essay, I recommend, thanks for watching!
Great art and business seldom coalesce
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Go job
It seemed to me you were describing a gifted autistic. Difficult, obsessed, highly intelligent, principled, dysfunctional. Except for the last these are also traits of Doc Martin.
I have just listened to an episode of The Science Show, published by The Australian Broadcasting Corporation entitled "Maths is here, it's there, it's everywhere" It's a quote from one of the interviewees who also opined, "Maths is art." I recommend you listen (and share it with any teachers and parents of schoolchildren) you know. Perhaps you can find a mathematician who understands this point of view and seek input to this and other art.
This isn't the first time I have heard of this viewpoint, I have also read of artists incorporating mathis in their art that had not been discovered at the time.
An important book, and a trip to ebay...thanks.
Thanks for watching, hope you find it, cheers!
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He died with $11 in the bank.
Didn’t know that, sad.
Tatiana, you don’t do justice to the obsessional nature of Smith’s activity. He clearly was a very difficult man. And kinda went off the rails. “… not good at keeping to deadlines…” doesn’t at all capture what was going on.
Talking about the effectiveness of particular pictures (and suggesting that we emulate the approach) completely misses the whole point of the project.. the “dream”… and the book.
There are other examples of photographers who appear to have become unbalanced by their practice… Winogrand, for example.
I think there’s a difference between somebody who has a photographic career and someone is just mucking about in photography!
I disagree that it destroyed his career. To me, it cemented his name in the pantheon of photographic creativity. If I could make one photograph as good as what Gene made in Pittsburgh I'd be pleased. His steelworker images are a goal for me. It's why I have two ongoing projects: "Working Stiffs" and "Tools of the Trade"
i dont know if it‘s your tempo, rhythm, tone or something else but for some reason it‘s super difficult for me to follow the narrative of the story. Maybe my english also just isn’t good enough but somehow it was very difficult to follow. 😅
I'm following you on Twitter, there I am like, devid leicam