Sunday, April 17, 2011

Memorial Service for Social Documentary Photographer, Milton Rogovin (1909-2011)

You are invited to celebrate the life and work of Milton Rogovin at a memorial for the late photographer, Saturday, May 21, 2011, from 2 - 3:30pm. The memorial service will be held at Upton Hall, Warren Enters Auditorium, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY. A reception will follow. No RSVP required, open to the public.

An exhibition of Milton's work will be on view in the gallery adjacent to the auditorium, curated by the Burchfield-Penny Art Center, hours 12pm - 6pm. Photograph of Milton Rogovin by Robart Kalman, © 2010.

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Plenty of parking available.

The Forgotten Ones & the Working Class Eye of Milton Rogovin

We'd like to share the remarkable documentary film, "Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones," Winner of Tribeca Film Festival for Short Documentaries, by filmmaker Harvey Wang.

This short film celebrates the life's work of photographer Milton Rogovin, who was 93 when this film was shot. After being blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and subsequently losing his optometry practice, Rogovin dedicated his life to photographing the residents of a depressed six-block area in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. Rogovin's first series of portraits of Lower West Side residents was completed in 1972. Over the next twenty years, Rogovin returned two more times to re-photograph his subjects. The film follows him as he returns one more time to the Lower West Side to take a fourth in his series of once-a-decade portraits.

In related news, The Working Class Eye of Milton Rogovin, opened this January, 2011 and will be on view at Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University in Chicago, through June 30th.


Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago
Hours: Monday – Friday, 9-6 p.m.
Saturday, 10-4 p.m.

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Milton's Master Collection at Center for Creative Photography

The master collection of 3,500 Milton Rogovin photographs can now ALL be seen online! This archive is at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Visit the Center for Creative Photography Archive now!

Curators, students and scholars from around the world will be able to view many of the world's great photography, including that of Milton Rogovin.