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Audio Clip: Weekend Edition Interview with Milton Rogovin

Weekend Edition on NPR with commentator Scott Simon. Scott Simon speaks with Milton Rogovin about becoming a photographer and his work on the Lower West Side.

Audio Clip: Interview with Milton Rogovin

Interview with Milton and his daughter on Milton's 100th birthday. Joyce Kryszak, WBFO News.

Recent Press

Last Links: The Jewish Connection to American Social Realism, by Paul Von Blum, published July 29, 2011, Tikkun

The People V. the Optometrist, by Arthur Bleich, Rangefinder Magazine for Professional Photographers, January 2010

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The NY Times Lens Blog features Milton with numerous photographs from his various series, upcoming celebrations, new publications, the new Picture Man: The Poetry of Photographer Milton Rogovin film, his website and more. Published August 9, 2009.

Recent Exhibitions

A Test of Time: The Photography of Milton Rogovin at the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum in Salamanca, New York.

A Yemeni Community: 1970's photos by Milton Rogovin at El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera in Buffalo, New York.

More information on current and upcoming exhibits »

Critical Essays & Media

Milton Rogovin: An Activist Photographer
© Robert Hirsch/www.lightresearch.net,
Originally published in Afterimage, September/October 2004

The essential Rogovin: An in-depth conversation
© Robert Hirsch/www.lightresearch.net
Originally published in Buffalo Spree Magazine, November 2004

The following critical essays are available as PDF downloads (click any title to download):

For Rogovin, A Bittersweet 'Harvest Time', by Mark Sommer - News Staff Reporter, The Buffalo News, Sunday, July 27, 2003

Milton Rogovin's "Approach": Photography, Class, and the Aesthetics of Making Space
by Joseph Entin (3.1 MB)

Milton Rogovin biography excerpted from Eye Witness: Milton Rogovin, Social Documentary Photographer
by Melanie Herzog (28 KB).

Milton Rogovin, Social Documentary Photography and Jewish Identity
by Melanie Herzog (5.8 MB)

The Eye Doctor's Vision: The Documentary Photography of Milton Rogovin
by Paul Von Blum (2.4 MB)

Photography & Writing: A Pedagogy of Seeing
by Janet Zandy (432 KB)

Photography and the Work of Class and Race
by Janet Zandy (176 KB)

The Practice of Not Forgetting: Photography by Milton Rogovin in Buffalo's Lower West Side
by Janet Zandy and Mark Rogovin (5 MB)