Milt Rogovin – The Forgotten Ones
Nov 1st, 2008 by markorton
Written 10/12/2003
During one of our whirlwind weekends in New York, Karen and I went to the New York Historical Society (2 West 77th Street New York, NY 10024 http://www.nyhistory.org) to catch the last day of the exhibit, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN ONES: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MILTON ROGOVIN.
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This proved to be the best photography, most engaging exhibit I have seen in years.
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Anne and Milton Rogovin (June 2003) |
At the heart of the experience was a roomful of triptychs, photos taken of the same family, if not always the same family members spanning three decades. Rogovin combined brief texts by one or more of those pictured and some included audio versions with the authors of the text speaking.
Here are a few images:
Eva and Daughter 1972, 1985, and 1992 (image borrowed without permission from The Getty Museum (http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o112420.html)
Grandparents and Baptism Boy 1974, 1985, 1992 (image borrowed without permission from The Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/oz112421.html)
And an updated “quartet” extending the one above:
Here are a couple of other pictures gleaned from various web sites:
(from the Working People series)
There is a Milton Rogovin website.
