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Note 1: "Stereo 1/2 track Pre - tokyo departure. 1961 Gene telephone with lawyer Mort Goldberg. (Discussion of celephane bag over head. About Okamoto. Then large blanks of just typing and Carole and Gene."; Note 2: CDI Smith on phone mention of Okimoto, ambient noise, footsteps, silence, long stretches of silence CDII Silence;

Note 1: "Stereo One Side 3rd session and 2nd class July 1961. Vher. Second Side. Long discussion with Lou Draper game night about ends justifying means."; Note 2: CDI Smith and woman with foreign accent and man named Lou (Draper?) 6. more men enter. 7. Smith "What is this? Do I have to chew it?" "no." Movement, many people talking at once. CDII Smith mentions Art Freed 2. Smith on journalism 11. beginning of (2nd?) photography class CDIII class, cont'd CDIV cont'd with chatter and Smith "Did you say you wanted to get married?", students leaving, Carole talking CDV 1. "Well there may be a god, but I think ...creating job and now he's washed his hands of the whole affair." 3. discussion btw Smith and draper, Cuba politics 4. Smith on revolutions CDVI Smith on Life Magazine, sounds like drumming in background (parade?) revolution, assassinations, difficult to hear discussion CDVII 1. cont'd Castro, Franco, Smith's voice, muffled CDVIII cont'd, ;

Note 1: "Only numbers on the box."; Note 2: CDI Radio: Surfer Music and Rock;

Note 1: "W. Eugene Smith Keynote speech University of Boulder."; Note 2: CDI W. Eugene Smith keynote speech. 1. Introduction and Smith, who references Bernie Freemesser and gives speech 1-5. 6. Jumps to other speakers slide show on several famous photographers. ;

Note 1: "1960. Carole and Gene talking of Love, lautrec, Crisis in Crotor Eggs in Sax, and General nonsense. The Advice squad Lennie, Ruth, George, Jeff. Missing Camera bags. Containg the will giving control…"; Note 2: CDI Smith, Carole. Talk about several different subjects, ongoing 1. ambient street and loft,with "I love you" by each 2. playful work 3. "you're drunk" "I'm going home, you're getting dangerous, what happened to you downstairs." (not entirely serous) and entrance of Pending 4. mention of Rembrandt perspective: "only one camera" and "after all, Ornette Coleman does play with a plastic horn" 5. Movie, Mickey Rooney in a tree. and "Rembrandt was a holy man" 6. Jim Karales, Limelight show, Helen Gee, Bil Garnett, Croton, Marisa 7. cont'd talk 8."I got a call Bill Pierce, oh shit, it's too late. I've got to get a contraption he had of mine." 9. Jeffrey Lenny Ruth and Shiffer "the advice squad". And Carole's parents. photo equipment talk. 10. tape talk, Smith addressing tapes?*** CDII 1. cont'd Smith readiing his last will and testament ****, 2. Carole Thomas as official witness for this spoken will. Carole Thomas's book. 3. book talk 4. "When Gary comes back, rewind and insert him as a witness... "Dr. Nightengale, prescription for benzedrine, for I must fly." 5. Smith doing mic checks, naming mics 6. ambient 7. Smith small talk 8. less talk, ambient CDIII 1. Loud putter and putter 2. cont'd with piano in background, interesting classical or searching??** 3. ambient, no piano CDIV 1. cat meow and Pageboy. Buzz on mic, and putter in loft. 2. door Smith entrance and some talk then lots of random talk and song "he never said a mumbling word." Humming other songs. 3. cont'd, looking for Pending and then talking to Pending. ;

Note 1: "Eugene Smith. Ellie Bach Astrolson talking to Gene Smith in a partial examination of his horoscope. Dec 1967."; Note 2: CDI Before 10th of December 1-7. Smith's astrological profile with Eleanor Bach. 7. Stops and restarts, cont'd -8. CDII 1. Beginning of session with Smith and Bach through 5. 6. Stops and restarts. Smith's childood and Atom Bombs referenced 7. Peace Mafches and more revealing discussion 8. photo comparison ;

Note 1: "Bernie Quint and Gene talking about vestal article."; Note 2: CD 1: Phonecall to Bernie [Bernard Quint, art director at Life]. Bernie is concerned about an article on Smith by David Vestal, to be published in Popular Photography, in which he (Quint) has been quoted. See transcript. CD 2: Another phonecall to Charlie (Charles Reynolds, who works for Pop Photo). See transcript. ;

Note 1: "Copy - Scholastic Made at Scholastic."; Note 2: CD 1: (Smith seems to be talking to an audience, but no other speakers are on the tape.) Smith talks about his war experiences. Reads from a 1944 letter to his family. Talks about "Walk to Paradise Garden," Spanish Village pictures, Schweitzer, Nurse Midwife. End tr. 3:"I never ever believe that I own my subjects...my subjects have the first right...I don't think photographs are worth trampling on human beings for.";

Note 1: "Box marked with pencil and cannot really be made out."; Note 2: CD1: Someone (not Smith) talking into the microphone. Comedy monologue: convertibles, cars. Woman laughing in the background. People in conversation in background. CD 2: cont'd. Background conversation. Talk of a waitress (bartender?) getting fired for having her boyfriend at work.;

Note 1: "Part of Jagged conversation with George right after resignation. Reason …"; Note 2: **CD 1: Phone call with George Orick. Orick is annoyed that Smith has "dodged a meeting" w/ him the other day without calling. Smith tries to defend himself. Tr. 2: "Is this being recorded Gene?" "No." Mention of Smith moving. Smith: "You double-crossed me very badly" in regards to move (Croton to NYC?). "You rubbed my goddamn face in the mud." Talk of "the situation with Emily,"--something about errors in an article about Smith (the Vestal article maybe?). Tr. 3 3:30 Smith gets very angry. CD 2: cont'd. Orick: "The way out for you is work, assignments, and not the acceptance of charity even on a temporary basis." Smith: "I do not consider capitalization a charity!" tr. 3: Smith sounds sort of crazed: "I'm tired, I'm hungry..." Says he'll finish some project or kill himself. Implications that he hasn't slept in a long time. Orick wants to come over and talk in person, Smith says he needs a few days. ;

Note 1: "3 3/4 ips talk with Virgil Cory? One of two first tape talking about "sensorial" Main talk about magazine begins this side."; Note 2: CD 1: Man w/ Southern accent--"We've been thinking of a magazine based primarily on photography." Wants to use Smith on cover. Discussion between Smith, Carole (?), and man from magazine about possibilities. **tr. 5, 1:28: Smith: "We could do part of the essay on the loft, since I have a sound portrait of this loft too, which I intend eventually to put both of them together in a book, or release them at the same time, you could include "A Portrait of a New York Loft Building: Sounds and Photographs."" Talks about including a cheap record of sounds from the loft in the magazine. Tr. 7: Talk of Smith as part owner of the magazine. CD 2: tr. 1: Smith talks about breaches of "journalistic integrity." Tr. 5: Phone rings, Smith answers, someone named Tommy. Says he can't talk, a "friend from Denver" is visiting, talking business. Tr. 7: Smith talks about his cats chewing through wiring. Everyone leaves for lunch. ;