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A selection of Milton Rogovin's photographs of working-class people is accompanied by discussions of his artistic development
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David Isay is an award-winning radio producer and regular contributor to National Public Radio. He lives in New York City.
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Rogovin's career as a documentary photographer began after he was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1957. Shunned by his home city of Buffalo, N. Y., Rogovin's optometry business foundered. Since his political voice as a citizen "was essentially silenced," a now 93-year-old Rogovin notes in an interview at the end of the book, he "decided to speak through photographs," documenting what working and street life do to people and families over time-and the ways in which people's joyous resiliency and intelligence come through nevertheless. Full-page black-and-white shots of Buffalo's "forgotten ones" from 1957 through 1984 take up more than half this collection, but 18 quartets of the city's Lower West Side area residents (1972-2002) stand out: in this remarkable series, Rogovin documents his subjects over four decades, photographing each person or family again every 10 or so years. The resulting quartets, printed over two-page spreads, are enhanced by interviews conducted by noted radio journalists Isay and Miller; one quartet subject, Johnny Grant, reflects how Rogovin's work challenges the cult of celebrity; Rogovin himself notes, "My photographs are rather straightforward. I don't try any monkey business-don't tell them where to sit, what to do. The only thing I do ask them is that they should look at the camera." Published in conjunction with an exhibit at the New-York Historical Society, this book shows nearly 50 years of that technique's amazing results.
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- PublisherUniv of Washington Pr
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0295961961
- ISBN 13 9780295961965
- BindingHardcover
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Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones
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University of Washington Press / The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Seattle, 1985
ISBN 10: 0295961961
ISBN 13: 9780295961965
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Hardbound. Black cloth/boards; silver lettering. White dj with bw photo and black/grey lettering. 183 pp. with bw photographs throughout. Catalogue of the exhibition, Feb. 1-July 21, 1985, held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. (Feb. 1-Mar. 17, 1985) and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. (May 30-July 21, 1985). Includes an interview by Cheryl Brutvan with essays by Robert J. Doherty and Fred Licht. More than 120 photographs from various periods of Rogovin's career appear here, including works from his Storefront Churches series, the Lower West Side in Buffalo, Appalachia, his Working People series, and selections from a Yemeni community in Lackawanna (New York). A few of his travel photos from Chile, France, Scotland, and Spain are included as well. (NOTE: This is the original 1985 edition of this title.). Good/Good (Clean and tight but with with some general shelf wear; age toning to page margins; art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks and tape ghosts from removed, soiled Mylar cover). Seller Inventory # 18101000001
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