All of Eugene Smith’s pictures reflect the aid an individual can give to others and the power the world contains to change itself for better or for worse. The photo essays on Country Doctor, Nurse Midwife and Albert Schweitzer portrays the willingness of healers to help others when they’re patients are at their weakest. His pictures during World War II showed the ab

Life magazine employed him after WWII but working there was not his ideal vocation but rather as an independent artist. He always preferred to compose his own layout format, which went against Life editor’s authority. Many of his pictures were published through Life magazine but what he truly wanted out of his photo essays could not be granted by Life. Much of that had to do with his eagerness and demands to compose the stories on his own. Either way he was completely loyal and committed to his photography of demonstrating social inequalities and portrayal of emotions through his pictures.

Eugene Smith’s pictures replicate the true embodiment of his subjects and the lives that revolve around them. In 1951, he captured a story of a strong, black woman working as a midwife in the rural south in a poor community. That story was titled, Nurse Midwife and by shooting this story, he sought to “make a very strong point about racism, by simply showing a r

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