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13/7/2002

Dream Street

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs is organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, with the participation of the W. Eugene Smith Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. Major support for the organization of the exhibition has been provided by the Henry L. Hillman Foundation, The Fellows of Carnegie Museum of Art, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Corporate sponsorship is provided by TIAA-CREF.

This exhibition of work by one of 20th-century photography's luminaries brings together nearly two hundred photographs from Smith's epic, unfinished essay on Pittsburgh in the mid-1950s. This is the first time these photographs have been exhibited together as he conceived them. Dream Street joins the two largest and most important public holdings of prints from the project, from the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and CCP, home of the world-famous W. Eugene Smith Archive. Smith was commissioned to spend three weeks in Pittsburgh to produce photographs for a book commemorating the city's bicentennial, Pittsburgh: Story of an American City. He stayed a year, compiling nearly 17,000 photographs for what would be the most ambitious photographic essay of his life, his intended magnum opus. Dream Street yields a provocative and illuminating perspective on his creative process and an invaluable portrait of mid-century postwar America through images of Pittsburgh at the height of its industrial era.

What else is on view at CCP?

Second Floor:

Winogrand's Circle of Influences with photographs by Diane Arbus, Eugène Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Tod Papageorge, Dan Weiner, And Geoff Winningham, in the PrintViewing Gallery selections from the portfolio Flashpoints by Gilles Peress, in the Board Room

First Floor:

a selection of photographs by Ansel Adams and Richard Avedon in the lobby. digital photographs of Mars transmitted to Earth by the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory's Imager for Mars Pathfinder (on sale in the Museum Store as a CCP fundraiser), in the corridor

Image: Pride Street, 1955. Gelatin silver print. The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith. Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona / W. Eugene Smith Archive.

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