This compelling book celebrates the career of Milton Rogovin, the ninety-three-year-old photographer whose sensitive portraits of working people have inspired generations. After his refusal to
answer absurd questions before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee ruined his optometry business, Rogovin began a new life with a camera. In the early 1970s, documenting lives on the
Lower West Side of Buffalo, New York, he gave dignity to resident African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Native Americans, and poor whites. He has returned to photograph many of the same people in
each of the following three decades. The remarkable results are in this book and in an exhibition at the New York Historical Society beginning in June, 2003. 135 duotone photographs.
