Publisher/Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Google翻訳
"Minamata" is a collection of works by W Eugene Smith, a leading photojournalist after the war. Eugene Smith is a representative photographer who expressed the new media of photojournalism by "LIFE". However, the style that emphasizes human dignity and focuses on telling the truth based on subjectivity, rather than journalism represented by Bresson et al., Who captures decisive moments based on objective facts, can be said to be the same journalism. They were similar and different. The technique, such as extreme trimming and multiple printing, is also new and different from conventional news photographs, and the series can be glimpsed in this work released in 1975. A series of daily life, pollution, illness, protests and compensation movements in Minamata is summarized by the words and photographs of Eugene and his wife Irene, and it is an important work that conveys the actual situation of Minamata disease to the world. In 2021, the documentary film "MINAMATA" starring Johnny Depp, an actor who admires Eugene Smith, will also be aired.