MILTON ROGOVIN
2015-07-20In 1972, at the age of 63, Rogovin began to photograph Buffalo’s Lower West Side. Turning up on streets from blue collar family neighborhoods to places where it was dangerous to ask too many questions (the reason many of the pictures are un-named) Rogovin photographed indoors and outdoors, individuals and family groups, as he sought to convey the truth of the lives of his subjects and their environment.
Returning to this neighborhood for three decades, Rogovin created singular portraits as well as triptychs and quartets photographing the same individuals or families with each visit. The resulting groups provide an extraordinary look at the passage of time. Rogovin completed the Lower West Side series at the age of 92. He died in 2011 at the age of 101.
Rogovin’s photographs are now in the permanent collections of over two dozen museums around the world, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Center For Creative Photography at the University of Arizona-Tucson and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2015
Danziger Gallery
521 W 23rd St
New York
10011
