No Longer Indifferent: The Photography of Milton Rogovin, Social Documentary Photographer

Milton Rogovin, né à New York le 30 décembre 1909 et mort à Buffalo le 18 janvier 2011, est un photographe américain et militant syndical. Sympathisant du Parti communiste, il est connu pour ses sujets sociaux, et fut également photojournaliste.

article de Mark Curran:
He is dangerous to the internal security because of his strong adherence to Marxist-Leninist principles (internal FBI memo dated April 8, 1968)

In 1909, five years after Lewis Hine had made his first journey to Ellis Island to document mass migration, another American photographer, Milton Rogovin, was born in New York City. The son of Jewish migrants, he would, like Hine, have another career before making photographs, experiencing a significant upheaval in his life when everything would change. Having graduated from Columbia University and subsequently practicing as an optometrist, Rogovin moved to Buffalo, upstate New York in the 1930s. This was at the height of the Great Depression, and coupled with living in an area defined as socially deprived, Rogovin became politically active. As he comments; ‘this catastrophe had a profound effect on my thinking, on my relationship to other people. No longer could I be indifferent to the problems of people’ (1974: 12).
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illustrations: 1 et 2_ from Lower East Side (extraits)