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What We Learned This Week: Reconsidering Two Historic Photo Essays

By David Schonauer   Friday August 23, 2019


One celebrated an overworked and humble American doctor.

The other exposed the impoverished world of a 12-year-old boy in Rio de Janeiro.

This week we looked back on two historic photo essays. The first, W. Eugene Smith’s “The Country Doctor,” is, as the Magnum photo agency has noted, “widely regarded …


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