© W. Eugene Smith/The Jazz Loft Project

Brainpicker, Maria Popova on the legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith’s ‘sting’ project:

For the following 8 years, Smith went through 1,447 rolls of film, resulting in some 40,000 photographs of everything from the nocturnal jazz scene to street life in the flower district outside, observed Hitchcock-style from his loft window. And he didn’t stop at image — he secretly wired the building with recording equipment, producing over 4,000 hours of stereo and mono audiotapes on 1,740 reels. The recordings captured more than 300 of the era’s greatest musicians …

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