Fine Print: Schweitzer at the Lamp. Lambaréné, Gabon, 1954 Vintage Erwitt captured everything from the

Erwitt captured everything from the mundane to the monumental with incredible care

Hölderlin's childhood friend

I am one of those people who love doing such big stories

His receptiveness to his surroundings

Fine Print: Schweitzer at the Lamp. Lambaréné, Gabon, 1954 Vintage Erwitt captured everything from theIn his final photo essay for LIFE magazine in 1954, W. Eugene Smith documented the work of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, at his leper camp in Lambarn, Gabon. Smith embedded himself there for three months but became frustrated with the lack of access. He wrote to Schweitzer: I must leave Lambarn, for you restrict me and force me to omissions, which indirectly make other photographic statements sometimes impossible. Schweitzer