Eugene was born on December 20th, 1918, In Wichita, Kansas.
He died on October 15th, 1978.
He was A war Correspondent for LIFE, He covered almost all of the important battles of the Pacific Theater. His most famous picture ''Walk to paradise Garden'' , showed his own children entering a forest clearing. It landed in the photographic exhibition, ''Family of Men''.
At a young man of the age of fourteen, he was interested in aeronautical engineering, and which made him borrow a camera from his mother, she was also an Enthusiastic Photographer. Soon as he grew up, photography became his full interest and through high school he took pictures for the local newspaper for his hometown.
He studied at Notre Dame University for Photography, Where his photo's impressed all the faculty and the students and administration, through all that it created him a special photographic scholarship.
Eventually he left the university to join a new york group called the Newsweek, later he was fired for using a too small camera, when he had specific orders not to, he said the reason why was because, he ''feels smaller cameras give him more freedom to see''.
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