A personal chronicle of post-9/11 America
David Hurn was invited by director Richard Lester – a friend – to photograph the filming from a sociological perspective
This iconic photograph is from Soth's celebrated body of work Sleeping by the Mississippi
making a point to always treat her the same as he would any other subject
it soon became a cult classic
Fine Print: Nurse Midwife. Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1951 Size:11 x 14 in (28 x 36 cm) A personal chronicle of post-9/11In 1951, during the height of segregation, LIFE magazine staff photographer W. Eugene Smith documented the heroic efforts of a black nurse midwife, Maude Callen, who served an impoverished community of 10,000 people in rural South Carolina. The story appeared in the December 3, 1951, issue of LIFE. The caption read: SIMPLE KINDNESS overwhelms an old man, who had been paralyzed for 20 years. The story made a plea for donations to build Maude a new