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= William Eugene Smith = William Eugene Smith was born on December 30th, 1918 and grew to be considered as an esteemed American photojournalist by modern artists. Smith was deemed "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay." Smith lived his life in pursuit of documentation and recordings of his daily life. He traveled many miles in pursuit of the perfect, narrative, photographic essay. In his life, he lived in constant pain from wounds both physical and emotional. He obtained

Early Life I
William Smith, was born in the city of Wichita, Kansas on December 30th of 1918 to the parents of William H. Smith and Nettie Lee. Growing up, Smith had taken interest in flying and aviation. When the little boy was only nine years old and asking his mother for money to buy photographs of airplanes, the child was given his first camera. In 1927 Nettie gave him her old camera in hopes that he would begin to take his own photographs. Though this is what birthed Smith's vocation. When her nine year old boy, who would later become the most esteemed photographer in history, came to her with a full roll of shots, she would develop the film for him in her own homemade darkroom.

William started grade school in his home town of Wichita. He started Catholic school in 1924, before he was handed a camera. By the time William was a teenager, photography was his passion and his craft. He began his journey as a professional and serious photographer when the famous Frank Noel of the Wichita Press approached him. Noel, impressed with his photography, pushed him to submit his works to the news sources. By the year 1933, when William was fifteen years old, he was published in The Wichita Eagle and the Wichita Beacon.

William graduated from the Wichita North High School in 1936. That same year, William's father, William H. Smith, took his own life. In there aftermath of this horrifying tragedy, young William Smith's morals and values where carved into stone. Salt was thrown into the wounds he and his mother endured when the news of the town used the story and twisted the death into a falsity. The truth of the circumstances of the situation had been lost. It was in this series of unfortunate events that lit the flame for William to begin his career in photojournalism. He made a promise to hold himself to the highest standards of truth not matter the cost.

Early Life
William Eugene Smith was born in the city of Wichita, Kansas on December 30th, 1918. His parents were Nettie Smith, an artist and a photographer who was taught composition there in the city of Wichita, and his fathers name remains an alias. Smith's father either went by the name of S.J. Smith or William H. Smith, nevertheless he was a very successful grain dealer until of course he was struck with a nationwide epidemic.