id: 148972 accession number: 1977.129 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.129 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:40.665000 Lower West Side: Untitled, 1973. Milton Rogovin (American, 1909–2011). Gelatin silver print; image: 16.9 x 15 cm (6 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.); paper: 25.2 x 20.3 cm (9 15/16 x 8 in.); matted: 35.6 x 30.6 cm (14 x 12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Wishing Well Fund 1977.129 © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents title: Untitled title in original language: series: Lower West Side series in original language: creation date: 1973 creation date earliest: 1973 creation date latest: 1973 current location: creditline: Wishing Well Fund copyright: © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Milton Rogovin (American, 1909–2011) - artist Milton Rogovin American, 1909- "The great photographer immersed himself in the poetry of simplicity and came to the surface with the net full of clear fish and flowers of profundity," Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wrote of Milton Rogovin. A social documentary photographer in the tradition of Lewis Hine, Rogovin's subjects have consistently been the world's urban and rural poor. His monograph The Forgotten Ones (1985) included series on storefront churches; portraits from Appalachia, Chile, and Spain; the Lower West Side of Buffalo; the Yemeni series at Lackawanna, New York; and mining villages in Scotland. Born in New York City, Rogovin acquired his first camera in 1942, teaching himself photography during the evenings, weekends, and vacations from his job as an optometrist in Buffalo (a vocation he practiced until 1977). He holds a B.A. in optics and optometry from Columbia University (1931) and an M.A. in American studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1971). For his dedication to humanitarian documentary photography, Rogovin received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Award in 1983. He lives in Buffalo. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 16.9 x 15 cm (6 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.); Paper: 25.2 x 20.3 cm (9 15/16 x 8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 30.6 cm (14 x 12 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1977 opening date: 1977-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 307 url: --- IMAGES