W. Eugene Smith was already acknowledged as an all-time master photojournalist by the time I was starting photography in the 60s. Here, from Life Magazine archives is one of the photo essays, including several images that I had never before seen, that made Smith famous: “Country Doctor”, 1948.
(And the link to the full essay again, in case you missed it:
Worth chasing down from many internet sources would be Smith’s other work such as that from his time as a World War II combat photographer, his investigation into mercury poisioning in Minamata, Japan, the Spanish village essay and his Jazz Loft Project. And Smith’s most celebrated photo (of his young children, taken while he was recovering from WWII wounds) is probably this one, “The Walk to Paradise Garden” from the mid-40s: