The first publication to situate the work of Richards in the long photographic tradition that merges personal artistic vision with documentary practice
Eugene Richards (b. 1944) is a documentary photographer known for his powerful, unflinching exploration of contemporary social issues from the early 1970s to the present. This handsome book is the first comprehensive and critical look at Richards’s lifelong achievements.
Reproduced in tritone and color, the extraordinary images in this volume explore complicated and controversial subjects, including racism, poverty, drug addiction, cancer, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the erosion of rural America. The authors of the book situate Richards’s work in the long photographic tradition that merges personal artistic vision with documentary practice, following in the tradition of W. Eugene Smith and Robert Frank.
Distributed for The Hall Family Foundation in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the George Eastman Museum
Exhibition Schedule:George Eastman Museum, Rochester
(06/10/17–10/22/17)The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
(12/09/17–04/15/18)
- ISBN10 0300227175
- ISBN13 9780300227178
- Publish Date 23 August 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 December 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English