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1994 TRIPTYCHS Milton Rogovin BUFFALO'S Lower WEST SIDE Revisited 1ST - $75 (BUFFALO, NY)
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Milton Rogovin, a photographer born in 1909, took portrait photographs in the multi-ethnic lower west side of Buffalo, New York, in 1973. He returned again in the mid-1980s and in 1992 and photographed the same subjects. The three images, showing children growing into adulthood and parents becoming elderly, families coming together and splitting apart, are presented side-by-side, across each double-page spread.
Triptychs with photographs by Milton Rogovin and commentary by Robert Coles, Stephen Jay Gould, and Joanne Wypijewski is a first edition © 1994 and was published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc and printed in the USA.
This hardcover book contains 141 pages and measures approximately 9 1/4" x 12 1/4".
In the early 1970s, Milton Rogovin set out to document the neighborhood near his house. He made a series of portraits of working-class people in Buffalo's Lower West Side. Then he returned to photograph the same people in the early 1980s and again in the 1990s. The result is this remarkable and moving portrait of time and place in America. Here are fifty of an acclaimed photographer's engaging Triptychs - a visual chronicle of change, aging, endurance and finally survival. As Robert Coles writes in his foreword, "These photographs constitute a major contribution to the American documentary tradition. They represent the insistence of one careful, gifted, attentive photographer upon seeing through, as it were, his self-assigned job of seeing."
Here we see working people who, like most Americans, find partners, have children and grandchildren, sometimes separate and sometimes die early. Some age considerably in the ten years between photographs, others almost not at all. Some lose children, change partners and houses and some visibly change lifestyles. What remains constant is the passing of time and its effects upon his subjects, so evident in Rogovin's work. These are among the themes observed and discussed in Stephen Jay Gould's illuminating introduction.
The hardcover book and dust jacket are both in excellent condition with NO missing pages, cut-outs or writing.
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