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The Working-Class Eye of Milton Rogovin

The Working-Class Eye of Milton Rogovin By Janet Zandy Th E Working- Class Ey E of Mil Ton r ogovin A Retrospective Photo Essay “You must get ready—you gotta get your ticket now.” —Mother Tokio, from the Storefront Churches Series Milton Rogovin photographed the people of The artistic expression of that “new person”—and the neighborhoods and workplaces most of us never his evolution from a politically-left optometrist to a enter. He didn’t use the language of war to describe masterful photographer—was fueled by the energy, his photographic practices—no casual “shooting,” chutzpah, and humanity of his wife Anne, a teacher, no “capturing” his subjects, no “arsenal” of cameras whom he married in 1942, after moving to Buffalo and films. Instead, in thousands of photographs over in 1938. Rogovin served three years in the army fifty years, he built a human landscape by seeing during World War II, joined the Optical Workers those who are the least visible and least powerful. Union, practiced optometry in a working-class Buffalo neighborhood, and—with Anne—continued Rogovin—who died in January 2011 at the age such political work as voter registration drives and of 101 in his Buffalo, New York home—was born on hosting political reading groups associated with the December 30, 1909 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

The Working-Class Eye of Milton Rogovin

Zandy, Janet
New Labor Forum , Volume 20 (2): 7 – Jun 1, 2011
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© 2011 Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY
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1095-7960
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1557-2978
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10.4179/NLF.202.0000007
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By Janet Zandy Th E Working- Class Ey E of Mil Ton r ogovin A Retrospective Photo Essay “You must get ready—you gotta get your ticket now.” —Mother Tokio, from the Storefront Churches Series Milton Rogovin photographed the people of The artistic expression of that “new person”—and the neighborhoods and workplaces most of us never his evolution from a politically-left optometrist to a enter. He didn’t use the language of war to describe masterful photographer—was fueled by the energy, his photographic practices—no casual “shooting,” chutzpah, and humanity of his wife Anne, a teacher, no “capturing” his subjects, no “arsenal” of cameras whom he married in 1942, after moving to Buffalo and films. Instead, in thousands of photographs over in 1938. Rogovin served three years in the army fifty years, he built a human landscape by seeing during World War II, joined the Optical Workers those who are the least visible and least powerful. Union, practiced optometry in a working-class Buffalo neighborhood, and—with Anne—continued Rogovin—who died in January 2011 at the age such political work as voter registration drives and of 101 in his Buffalo, New York home—was born on hosting political reading groups associated with the December 30, 1909

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Published: Jun 1, 2011

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