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Analysis Of Dance Of The Flaming Coke

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The second art visit of the semester was looking at a piece that was done over fifty years ago. The piece of artwork that I chose was called “Dance of the Flaming Coke” done by Eugene W. Smith. Eugene. This piece is a gelatin silver print (photographic print). The print had a publishing date of 1955 to 1956 and is part of the Tweed Museum collection. Eugene Smith was born in Wichita, Kansas in the year 1918, and began his photography career in his teenage years working for two newspaper companies. Smith later attended Notre Dame University, but left within a year to New York City. He studied at the New York Institute of Photography and later worked for Newsweek. Eugene was later part of island-hopping in the Pacific during World War II, where he was injured. After recovery, he worked for Life and later became the president of the Photo League (1949). He continued his photography career and later taught at the University of Arizona. He only taught for about a year; he died in 1978 due to a stroke. Many of his pieces are kept together at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. His legacy also lives because of the Eugene Smith Fund, which promotes humanistic photography. When looking at the form of the piece, it is a black and white image, with a dark silhouette of a man at the center of the image. The man is using a long pole or pipe to poke at flames coming from holes in the ground; these holes are vents from a coke oven beneath the man. Smoke is billowing out of

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