Pittsburgh Project
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The Pittsburgh Project is W. Eugene Smith’s monumental, unfinished photo-essay documenting the city of Pittsburgh through thousands of intensely detailed, black-and-white images.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary photography project
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photo-essay ⓘ |
| colorSpace | black and white ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Stefan Lorant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedFor | book about Pittsburgh ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | W. Eugene Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation |
documentary photographer
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photojournalist ⓘ |
| depicts |
Pittsburgh architecture
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Pittsburgh bridges ⓘ Pittsburgh civic life ⓘ Pittsburgh neighborhoods ⓘ Pittsburgh nightlife ⓘ Pittsburgh steel industry ⓘ Pittsburgh streets ⓘ Pittsburgh workers ⓘ |
| genre |
black-and-white photography
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documentary photography ⓘ photojournalism ⓘ |
| hasCollection |
Carnegie Museum of Art
NERFINISHED
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International Center of Photography NERFINISHED ⓘ W. Eugene Smith Archive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEditingStyle |
complex sequencing of images
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highly selective darkroom printing ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
documentary photography
ⓘ
long-form photo-essays ⓘ |
| hasPart | black-and-white photograph ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
everyday life
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human condition in an industrial city ⓘ industrial labor ⓘ social realism ⓘ urban transformation ⓘ |
| inception | mid-1950s ⓘ |
| language | none (visual work) ⓘ |
| locationOfWork | Pittsburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Pittsburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | humanist photography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
intensely detailed images of urban life
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monumental scale ⓘ |
| numberOfWorks | thousands of photographs ⓘ |
| partOfCollection | Center for Creative Photography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photographicProcess | gelatin silver print ⓘ |
| startTime | 1950s ⓘ |
| timePeriodDocumented |
1950s Pittsburgh
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postwar Pittsburgh ⓘ |
| workScope | city-wide documentation ⓘ |
| workStatus | unfinished ⓘ |
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