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W. Eugene Smith

1918 - 1978

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William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978) was an American photojournalist. He has been described as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay." His major photo essays include World War II photographs, the visual stories of an American country doctor and a nurse midwife, the clinic of Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa, the city of Pittsburgh, and the pollution which damaged the health of the residents of Minamata in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. Eugene Smith has received more than 891,812 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). W. Eugene Smith is the 16th most popular journalist (down from 13th in 2019), the 1,489th most popular biography from United States (down from 893rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Journalist.

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  • 890k

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  • 60.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, W. Eugene Smith ranks 16 out of 196. Before him are Robert Guérin, Julian Assange, Dorothea Lange, John Reed, Beate Klarsfeld, and Victor Noir. After him are Alexander Berkman, Lee Miller, Endre Ady, Aenne Burda, Gareth Jones, and Jeremy Clarkson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, W. Eugene Smith ranks 64. Before him are François Tombalbaye, E. Howard Hunt, Lila Kedrova, Derek Barton, Sam Walton, and Henryk Szeryng. After him are Gabriel Axel, Kakuei Tanaka, Edwin G. Krebs, Takashi Kasahara, Robert Aldrich, and John Forsythe. Among people deceased in 1978, W. Eugene Smith ranks 42. Before him are Étienne Gilson, Norman Rockwell, Musa al-Sadr, Charles Boyer, Giovanni Gronchi, and Roger Caillois. After him are Guo Moruo, Hannah Höch, Ida Noddack, Keith Moon, Harvey Milk, and Georgi Markov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, W. Eugene Smith ranks 1,489 out of 20,380. Before him are Larry Flynt (1942), Clive Cussler (1931), Red Cloud (1822), Michael Rooker (1955), J. J. Cale (1938), and Bessie Smith (1894). After him are Kelly Preston (1962), David McClelland (1917), Thomas J. Sargent (1943), Stonewall Jackson (1824), William Nordhaus (1941), and Erskine Caldwell (1903).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, W. Eugene Smith ranks 4. Before him are Anna Politkovskaya (1958), Dorothea Lange (1895), and John Reed (1887). After him are Lee Miller (1907), Tucker Carlson (1969), Edgar Snow (1905), Charles Dow (1851), Diana Nyad (1949), Steve McCurry (1950), Walker Evans (1903), and Margaret Bourke-White (1904).

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