Innovator: Eugene Richards

By Stephen WolgastFor more than 40 years, Eugene Richards has held a mirror to society. Even his simplest images are packed with nuance, composed with a literary quality that pulls the viewer deeper. It’s a style that asks the viewer not to just see the p

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Richards has cast aside the notion that photographs speak for themselves. Words make an increasingly significant contribution – providing another dimension, telling the back-story, revealing his subjects’ motivations (and, sometimes, his own), creating complementary tales that are richer precisely because they diverge.