Fine Print: Girl at the flower shop. New York, 1958 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) all of whom have come

all of whom have come to the Dani’s Baliem Valley and transformed the conditions under which they live

With his signature eye for irony and atmosphere

a subject that was widely discussed in the media at that time

and it was certainly a conscious effort

photographed in a straightforward and unpretentious manner by Morath

Fine Print: Girl at the flower shop. New York, 1958 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) all of whom have comeAfter quitting LIFE magazine in 1954, W. Eugene Smith moved into a shabby loft in New Yorks flower district. Smith described the broken window as the proscenium arch with me on the third stage looking through it, and the whole audience in performance down before me, an everchanging pandemonium of delicate details and habitual rhythms. LIFE published this work, As From My Window I Sometimes Glance, under the headline Drama Beneath a City Window on