A Buffalo Photographer’s Dignified Look at the Passage of Time In three decades, Milton Rogovin and his wife, Anne, captured changes in one upstate neighborhood, while also reaching deep into grand abstractions of nature and time. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-buffalo-photographers-dignified-look-at-the-passage-of-time Milton’s photographs from the neighborhood originated in 1972, when he was invited to visit…
Link: Originally an optometrist, Milton was persecuted during the un-American McCarthyite inquisitions of the 1950s. With his practice in rapid decline as a consequence, he turned to photography to express his values, and for sixty years photographed the poor and the working class with a clear eye
The Lives They Lived This year seemed to have more than its fair share of iconic deaths, but this is not a greatest-hits issue. Instead, we gravitated to those with an untold tale. Ira Glass of “This American Life” edits a special section devoted to ordinary people. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/22/magazine/the-lives-they-lived.html#view=the_neighborhood_photographer The documentary photographer Milton Rogovin (b.…
