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Milton Rogovin 1909-2011
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I read this earlier today on the CorkAP website posted on from theonlinephotographer website. Thanks Rory!.
Milton Rogovin was a great socialist photographer,who started photography after being persecuted during the infamous McCarthy era.
Anne and Milton Rogovin, 2001, by Harvey WangFrom the New York times
Milton Rogovin, an optometrist and persecuted leftist who took up photography as a way to champion the underprivileged and went on to become one of America’s most dedicated social documentarians, died on Tuesday at his home in Buffalo. He was 101.
Mr. Rogovin chronicled the lives of the urban poor and working classes in Buffalo, Appalachia and elsewhere for more than 50 years. His direct photographic style in stark black and white evokes the socially minded work that Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks produced for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Today his entire archive resides in the Library of Congress.
In 1957, with cold war anti-Communism rife in the United States, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee but refused to testify. Soon afterward, The Buffalo Evening News labeled him “Buffalo’s Number One Red,” and he and his family were ostracized. With his business all but ruined by the publicity, he began to fill time by taking pictures, focusing on Buffalo’s poor and dispossessed in the neighborhood around his practice while living on his wife’s salary as a teacher and being mentored by the photographer Minor White.
Photo of Milton is his darkroom by Diane BushHis final book was ‘The Forgotten Ones’, published in 2003.
Visit http://www.miltonrogovin.com” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false; for more about the man and his work.
A short award winning documentary film featuring Milton and his work.
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