W. Eugene Smith was known as the pioneer of photo-journalism. The photo-essay above of Dr Ernest Ceriani, a country doctor in Colorado was widely acknowledged as an original journalistic form. One of the most vivid images shows Ceriani looking exhausted in a kitchen, having performed a Caesarian section during which both mother and baby died.
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His iconic Life-magazine photo of “Tomoko and mother in the bath” changed the course of the Minamata poisoning case in Kumamoto, Japan. His widow, Aileen Mioko Smith, would later give the copy-rights of this photograph to the family of Tomoko in 1998, 20 years after her death at the age of 21, so that it would no longer be published freely, in accordance with the wishes of the family, and out of respect for the memory of Tomoko.
The late Ryuichi Sakamoto composed and played the theme music here, for the movie Minamata, in his Concert for the Isolated (2020).