Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Photographs Born in 1918, Smith began his professional career at the young age of fourteen as a stringer for newspapers in Wichita, Kansas, his hometown(Beauret et al. 4). His worked earned him a scholarship to Notre Dame University, but Smith left after only a year to pursue a career in New York City(4). Soon after arriving in New York City Smith established himself as a photojournalist with his work …showed first 75 words of 958 total…

…showed last 75 words of 958 total…vital expression of his life’s work(Stephenson 2). Smith stated that “I was at my peak as a photographer in, say 1958 or so. My imagination and my seeing were both, I don’t know... red hot or something. Everywhere I looked, every time I thought, it seemed to me it left me with great exuberance and just a truer quality of seeing. But it was the most miserable time of my life”(Beauret et al 178).