About

Marthe Smith is retired from Time Inc. where she wrote extensively about photography for the Time Life Photo Sight, a Pathfinder website, and was the Photo Editor for several books on photography, including Eyewitness: 150 Years of Photojournalism. She was the founding Director of the LIFE Gallery of Photography and curated numerous exhibitions for the gallery and Time Warner corporate exhibition spaces around the United States. She co-produced the Emmy Award winning documentary film, W. Eugene Smith, Photography Made Difficult, which aired on PBS’s American Masters. She studied Art History and Film at Skidmore College.

She is currently working on a biography of Wallace Gould Levison, a turn of the 20th century photographer and inventor of an early motion picture camera. She is also compiling a series of small photo books of her own photography.