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Lot 207
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
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Smith, W. Eugene, and Aileen M. Smith Minamata
New York: An Alskog-Sensorium Book/Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. First edition thus. 4to. 192 pp. Signed in ink on half-title by Eugene and Aileen Smith. Stiff perfect-bound wrappers, lamination peeling slightly.
Eugene and Aileen Smith photographed and wrote about the devastating effects of mercury poisoning on the people of Minamata, Japan. High mercury levels in the water and food occurred after the Chisso company spent years dumping industrial waste into the bay. (Roth, p. 232).