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Films
The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
"This Movie Could Change the World!" - Pete Seeger
In 1957, Milton Rogovin was declared “The Top Communist in Buffalo”. In reality, he was an optometrist active registering Black voters. Refusing to be silenced, he found a new political voice - a camera. The award winning documentary film, "The Rich have Their Own Photographers," had its debut at the Lincoln Center with Pete Seeger as MC and is now finally available for purchase here.
[DVD] 60 min., Ezra Bookstein filmmaker, Telling Image Films, 2007. This film includes bonus features including Pete Seeger singing for Anne and Milton.
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For home viewing only. For public, educational, cultural or library use without authorized license is strictly prohibited. For institutional use, contact ezra@tellingimagefilms.com.
Picture Man: the Poetry of Photographer Milton Rogovin
[DVD] 19 min. 23 sec, 70 photographs, 17 poems, 2009.
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Milton, at age 89 years old, selected a number of his special images to write about, wanting to express in writing something more about his photographs. The 20 minute film has Milton and Anne in their dining room, projecting the photos and reading the poems.
"The poems themselves might be alright and my photographs, of course I love them, but together it brings it up to a higher level." – Milton Rogovin
Books and Publications
From the Western Door to the Lower West Side
Photographs by Milton Rogovin, Poetry by Eric Gansworth.
7 x 10in., 96 pages, 44 photographs, 19 poems, 2009.
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From the Western Door to the Lower West Side, is a collaboration between two celebrated artists: photographer Milton Rogovin and Native American poet Eric Gansworth and is an outgrowth of an exhibit of Milton Rogovin's photographs from his Native American Series. Poet Eric Gansworth has written a book-length cycle of poems that interact with Rogovin's photographs to form a unique experience, blending the written word and visual images. The book and the photographs, taken over a period of forty years, reflect the journey from the Longhouse's Western Door of Seneca reservation culture, a culture distinctly different, from the lifestyles of Buffalo's Lower West Side, the neighborhood many people migrated to when their families left the more rural reservation homes.
Published by White Pine Press P.O. Box 236 Buffalo, NY 14201
Milton Rogovin: The Lens & the Pen: Photographs & Poems
8.5 x 11in., 102 pages, 70 photographs, 30 poems, 2009.
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At the age of 87, Rogovin was encouraged by his wife, Anne, to write poems to accompany some of his own photographs. Collected here are thirty of his poems, selected by Milton and his family, which are published for the first time and accompanied by those photographs that inspired the writing. "The poems themselves might be alright and my photographs, of course I love them, but together it brings it up to a higher level."
Published by Palisade Press, P.O. Box 401 Arroyo Seco, NM 87513
Milton Rogovin: the Making of a Social Documentary Photographer
by Melanie Herzog, University of Washington Press and Center for Creative Photography 2006
$30.00
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This is the only book of Rogovin's photography that reviews each of his major series. This biography also places Rogovin in context of other 20th century documentary photographers and talks of his early years, his family, HUAC assault and his development as a photographer.
Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones
by Dave Isay, Quantuck Lane Press 2003
$30.00
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Of all Rogovin’s photographing, 2/3rds is from the Buffalo area. This book has photos mainly from Buffalo and has sixteen of Rogovin’s Lower West Side Quartets. The NY based Story Corps approached Rogovin to return to his LWS Triptychs and return for the last time between 2000-2002. Interviews of the people in the series accompanies the Quartets. A film was created by Harvey Wang about the final photographing of the people in the series.
Bonds Between Us: A Celebration of Family
Photographs by Milton Rogovin. 8 x 10in., 96 pages, 70 B/W photographs, 2001.
$19.95
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This book draws from Milton Rogovin’s major series and encompasses five decades of his photographing. In the book are portraits of families from around the world. These are not glitzy celebrities seen in magazines; they are common people, both working-class and poor, for whom family is true wealth. What has been created in the photos is an intimate window on their lives that revealed how the people wanted to be perceived and recorded for posterity.
Published by White Pine Press P.O. Box 236 Buffalo, NY 14201
With Eyes and Soul: Images of Cuba
Poetry by Nancy Morejón, Photographs by Milton Rogovin. Bilingual edition. 8 x 10in., 115 pages, 40 photographs, 30 Poems, 2004.
$19.95
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With Eyes and Soul is a stunning collaboration of visions: the vision of the great social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin and the vision of renowned Afro-Cuban poet Nancy Morejón.
Rogovin traveled to Cuba three times in the 1980s to photograph those he calls "the forgotten ones"; miners, factory workers, children, and families. He encountered poet, Nancy Morejon, who upon seeing the images, decided to write new poems and select poems from her work that resonated with the photographs. The result is a wonderful mosaic of visual images fused with poetry to create a compelling portrait of Cuba and its people. Nancy Morejón is one of the most important poets of Cuba, publishing over 20 books of poetry.
Published by White Pine Press P.O. Box 236 Buffalo, NY 14201
Program Guides
Milton's 100th Birthday Celebration Commemorative Program Book
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Program Book, signed 8.5 x 11in. booklet, 8 pages.
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Created for the 100th birthday celebration for Milton Rogovin, including never before published photos of Milton and the family.
Posters and Art Prints
Milton's 100th Birthday Celebration Commemorative Poster
Birthday Poster, signed edition 12 x 19in. commemorative poster for Milton's 100th birthday.
Images are a montage based on the porcelain enamel panels of Rogovin photographs at the Humboldt Hospital Subway Station in Buffalo. Photographs included are many of Rogovin’s most important ones.
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"From Generation to Generation", Milwaukee Art Museum exhibit poster
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16 x 39in., limited quantity, signed.
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This limited edition poster was produced by the Milwaukee Art Museum for their 2001 exhibition "From Generation to Generation" of Milton Rogovin's Lower West Side Triptychs. This poster was created for classroom use where students could select Triptychs that they wanted to work with and teacher would separate the sets along pre-perforated lines. On the back of each set are the dates of each photo and brief description of the Lower West Side Triptych series.
"The Dignity of Labor"
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13.5 by 39in., limited quantity, signed.
Issued December 9, 2005, celebrating Milton Rogovin's 95th birthday. Produced by a Buffalo labor law firm Cantor, Lukasik, Dolce and Panepinto.
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"Milton Rogovin - Buffalo," commemorative fine art (pigment print) poster featuring image from the Lower West Side series.
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20 x 30in., signed, numbered, limited edition, digital print (pigment print).
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Created by Danziger Projects, NYC.
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Signed, numbered, limited edition, digital print (pigment print) honoring Milton Rogovin on his 100th Birthday. The photograph is from Rogovin's Lower West Side series.