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The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith

Duration: 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

In 1950 the American photo-journalist W Eugene Smith came to Britain to cover the general election for Life Magazine, but his photographs were never published. Welsh writer and broadcast Professor Dai Smith goes in search of these lost pictures and discovers how the magazine's opposition to Attlee's radical Labour government caused them to suppress Smith's work. Show less

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