Tag Archives: Milton Rogovin
Robert Hirsch with Milton Rogovin (2004)
From Lower West Side, 1972-1977 “My voice was essentially silenced so, I decided to speak out about problems through my photography.” Milton Rogovin: An Activist Photographer; An Interview by Robert Hirsch (Editors Note: Milton Rogovin, the Buffalo social documentary photographer who was renowned for revealing the unsung stories and inherent dignity of the poor, […]
Milton Rogovin’s Approach: Photography, Class, and the Aesthetics of Making Space (2008)
The years during which Rogovin completed this series represented a period of great loss and decline for industrial labor in the U.S., especially in traditional manufacturing cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo… Milton Rogovin’s “Approach”: Photography, Class, and the Aesthetics of Making Space By Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (Note: […]
The Practice of Not Forgetting – Milton Rogovin in Buffalo’s Lower West Side
Rogovin photographed what he calls “the forgotten ones” in storefront churches, the neighborhoods of the Lower West Side and Buffalo’s East Side, and in former steel mills of Lackawanna and Buffalo. Excerpt from The Forgotten Ones It is like a movie set without actors. This Saturday morning in April 2008, Main Street in […]