The Temporary Contemporary
The first major retrospective of his work, W. Eugene Smith: Let Truth Be The Prejudice presented two hundred and fifty master prints by Smith, loaned from the W. Eugene Smith Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
Smith began his career before graduating high school in 1936, contributing to major papers such as The New York Times and later Newsweek, LIFE, Collier's, Harper's Bazaar, and more. During World War II Smith became a war correspondent and photographed scenes from the front lines of the Pacific where he captured images of fleeing, wounded, and dead soldiers and civilians. After returning to the US, Smith completed several of his most famous photo essays, all published in Life and displayed in Let Truth Be The Prejudice. The Country Doctor (1948); Spanish Village (1950/1951); Nurse Midwife (1951); and A Man of Mercy (1954). The exhibition traveled for three years to ten different cities across the US and Canada.
The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue published by Aperfure.
W. Eugene Smith: Let Truth Be The Prejudice was organized by the Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Temporary Contemporary is the original name of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.