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Friday's Labor Folklore
Con Carbon, Minstrel of the Mine Patch
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Milton Rogovin
Photographer
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Milton Rogovin was born in New York City in 1909. He went on from high school to study optometry at Columbia University. The Great Depression was underway and he was radicalized by the experiences he witnessed. A job offer as an optometrist brought Rogovin to Buffalo. In 1959 he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. His serious involvement in photography didn't begin until the late 1950s with his Storefront Church series.
Rogovin had no training as a photographer. His artistic influence came from his study of the art that he loved --
that of Kathe Kollwitz, Francisco Goya, the art of the printmakers and muralists of Mexico and others.
Milton Rogovin's desire was to photograph those who are not the rich or glamorous; he photographed those he called the Forgotten Ones. His series include Working People, Family of Miners, Chile, Lower West Side, and the Yemeni and Native American communities.
Eight hundred of his photographs can be viewed on the www.miltonrogovin.com website. Photographs are organized by series in downloadable folios. Rogovin has a desire to have his photos used as curriculum in school and other settings. His major archives are the Library of Congress and the Center for Creative Photography. Rogovin died at age 101.
[Top to bottom: Working people, Westinghouse, 1979-1980; Working people Westinghouse, 1979-1980; Native American in reservation surrounding Buffalo, 1963; Worker in Shenango Steel Mill, Buffalo, NY, 1967-1971; Family of Miners, Cuba, 1984-1989*; Appalachian miner, 1987.]
*Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Archive.
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Brother, can you spare a dime?
performed by Abbey Lincoln
with Stan Getz
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