After "Dream Street:" Eugene Smith in his New York "jazz loft"

 In the fall of 2001, the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University collaborated on a terrific exhibition of the 1955 Pittsburgh photo project of famed photographer Eugene Smith.

"Dream Street," the title taken from a Smith photo of that street sign above a Studebaker convertible, presented the city and its people in an unearthly, at times, nighmarish way. The exhibition's work is collected in a book from WW Norton with the same name.

After Pittsburgh, a physically and mentally broken Smith, now estranged from his family (his photo of his kids, "The Walk to Paradise Garden" will break your heart) wound up in Manhattan renting space in a rundown loft where he invited jazz players to jam while he recorded and photographed them.

Now, the documentary center has launched a project on Smith in NYC. It's all on the Web site:

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/jazzloft/index.html