Welsh miners, Wales, 1950 / W. Eugene Smith. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Welsh miners, Wales, 1950 / W. Eugene Smith., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Welsh miners, Wales, 1950 / W. Eugene Smith.
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Taken in Wales in 1950, this group portrait shows coal miners from the Welsh coalfields, a region whose towns and livelihoods were built around pits and underground labor. W. Eugene Smith made the photograph during a period when the British coal industry had recently been nationalized, and his close attention to the men's faces and working clothes captures the strain and camaraderie of that work. This example is a 1977 print from a portfolio of ten of Smith's photographs issued by Witkin-Berley, so it reflects a later printing of an earlier image.
| Created / published | Roslyn Heights, N.Y. : Witkin-Berley Ltd., 1977. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1950.Portrait photographs 1950.Photographic prints 1970-1980. |
| Notes | In portfolio: W. Eugene Smith, a portfolio of ten photographs. Roslyn Heights ..., no. 3. |
| Subjects | Coal miners--1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,291 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-180710 |
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