Rogovin to Lecture At UB On Documentary Photography

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Nationally recognized documentary photographer Milton Rogovin of Buffalo will present a slide lecture on his photographs at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, in screening room 112 in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

Rogovin’s lens usually has been turned on the diurnal lives of working people and his work has been published in many national magazines, journals and newspapers.

Although he has found subjects in venues around the world, including mine workers on every continent, his work frequently has featured Western New Yorkers, including the Yemeni community of Lackawanna, members of storefront evangelical churches on Buffalo’s East Side, steelworkers and members of several West Side neighborhoods.

The photographer holds a master’s degree in American studies from UB and is a member of the adjunct faculty. He has published several books. They are “Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones” (1985), “Portraits in Steel” (Cornell University Press, 1993) with oral histories by Michael Frisch, UB professor of history and American studies, and “Triptychs: Buffalo’s Lower West Side Revisited” (Norton, 1994).

Rogovin was a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Award in documentary photography and his work has been exhibited in major national and international museums and art galleries. In 1993, he was the subject of a featured segment on “CBS Sunday Morning” with Charles Kuralt.