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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf documentary photography project
photo-essay
colorSpace black and white
commissionedBy Stefan Lorant NERFINISHED
commissionedFor book about Pittsburgh
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator W. Eugene Smith NERFINISHED
creatorOccupation documentary photographer
photojournalist
depicts Pittsburgh architecture
Pittsburgh bridges
Pittsburgh civic life
Pittsburgh neighborhoods
Pittsburgh nightlife
Pittsburgh steel industry
Pittsburgh streets
Pittsburgh workers
genre black-and-white photography
documentary photography
photojournalism
hasCollection Carnegie Museum of Art NERFINISHED
International Center of Photography NERFINISHED
W. Eugene Smith Archive NERFINISHED
hasEditingStyle complex sequencing of images
highly selective darkroom printing
hasInfluenceOn documentary photography
long-form photo-essays
hasPart black-and-white photograph
hasTheme everyday life
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
monumental scale
numberOfWorks thousands of photographs
partOfCollection Center for Creative Photography NERFINISHED
photographicProcess gelatin silver print
startTime 1950s
timePeriodDocumented 1950s Pittsburgh
postwar Pittsburgh
workScope city-wide documentation
workStatus unfinished

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W. Eugene Smith notableWork Pittsburgh Project