Milton Rogovin: The Mining Photographs

by Judith Keller

Born in New York in 1909, Milton Rogovin has been photographing coal miners since 1962, working first in Appalachia and later, in the 1980s, in Europe, Asia, South Africa, China, Mexico, and Cuba. Particularly in these later portraits he concentrated on the lives of miners as revealed at work and at home. Men and women portrayed at a mine entrance or in a changing room, covered in coal dust, are barely recognizable in the accompanying photographs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089236811X
• ISBN13: 9780892368112
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 10.7"