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Milton Rogovin
. Keller
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Description for Milton Rogovin
Hardcover. In this later portraits, Milton Rogovin concentrated on the lives of coal miners as revealed at work and at home. This book presents more than one hundred of these direct and powerful images, usually in pairings that reveal Rogovin's unsentimental regard for men and women, whose dangerous work is shown to be only one part of their complex lives. Num Pages: 144 pages, 126 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; AJCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 907.
Born in New York in 1909, Milton Rogovin has been photographing coal miners since 1962, working first in Appalachia and later, in the 1980s, in Europe, Asia, South Africa, China, Mexico, and Cuba. Particularly in these later portraits he concentrated on the lives of miners as revealed at work and at home. Men and women portrayed at a mine entrance or in a changing room, covered in coal dust, are barely recognizable in the accompanying photographs, where they proudly stand in their living rooms or backyards, holding a pet or posing with their families, surrounded by their cherished belongings. "Milton ... Read more
Born in New York in 1909, Milton Rogovin has been photographing coal miners since 1962, working first in Appalachia and later, in the 1980s, in Europe, Asia, South Africa, China, Mexico, and Cuba. Particularly in these later portraits he concentrated on the lives of miners as revealed at work and at home. Men and women portrayed at a mine entrance or in a changing room, covered in coal dust, are barely recognizable in the accompanying photographs, where they proudly stand in their living rooms or backyards, holding a pet or posing with their families, surrounded by their cherished belongings. "Milton ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Santa Monica CA, United States
ISBN
9780892368112
SKU
V9780892368112
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About . Keller
Includes an introductory essay by Judith Keller, associate curator of photographs at the Getty Museum; a chronology of Rogovin's life and career and a selected bibliography are provided by Melanie Herzog.
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