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L.A.T.C. has just closed the year's splashiest example of the drama of the abstruse. Minamata takes its name from a Japanese fishing village that was afflicted with industrially caused mercury poisoning, and many of the show's powerful images derived from W. Eugene Smith's documentary photographs, published in 1972 by LIFE. The text explores how modern society distances those who cause a disaster from those who suffer the effects. But it is also about -- to the extent that the hallucinatory stream of consciousness can be said to be "about" anything -- transvestism, multinational corporations, military buildups, Hostess cupcakes...
...MINAMATA. The premonitory 1948 pollution tragedy in a Japanese fishing village inspired the images in this harrowing multimedia alarm at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...MINAMATA. The premonitory 1948 pollution tragedy in a Japanese fishing village inspired the images in this harrowing multimedia alarm at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...Okinawa in 1944 while on wartime assignment for LIFE magazine. After 32 operations and two years of convalescence, Smith returned to work on a series of memorable LIFE photo essays, including "Country Doctor," "Spanish Village" and "Nurse-Midwife." In 1971 Smith moved to the Japanese fishing village of Minamata to begin a three-year task of recording the anguish of townspeople poisoned by mercury dumped into local waters by a chemical company. Although he was severely beaten and nearly blinded by goons, he documented the tragedy in his book Minamata, published in 1975. An intense, uncompromising craftsman, Smith strove...
...been detected in children living near a copper smelter in Ruston, Wash. High levels of lead and other heavy metals, such as arsenic and mercury, are potentially lethal. Mercury poisoning, caused by industrial dumping of toxic compounds into a harbor, killed an estimated 300 people in the area around Minamata, Japan, and crippled almost 1,000 more...