Harry Smith
Artist and filmmaker
Harry Smith (1923 Portland, USA-1991, New York, USA) was a filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, musicologist and occultist; an incomparable polymath and seminal figure in the realms of beat culture and avant-garde art. Smith's kaleidoscopic experimental films have influenced generations of artists and cinephiles, while his landmark three-volume compilation, the Anthology of American Folk Music (1952), laid the foundation for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to his ecstatic artwork, Smith is renowned for his vast collections of curious objects. The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné series spotlights and indexes his eclectic research obsessions.
(biography from Anthology Film Archives)
Update: 21 October 2016