Amherst Foundry
1979
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 18.9 x 18 cm (7 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 25.3 x 20.3 cm (9 15/16 x 8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Pierre Cremieux and Denise Jarvinen
Accession Number
2010.138.15
Art Historical Context
**Amherst Foundry**, a poignant 1979 gelatin silver print by Milton Rog, captures the gritty essence of industrial labor in Western New York. Measuring 18.9 x 18 cm, this square-format image is housed in the National Gallery of Art gifted by Pierre Cremieux and Denisevinen. Rogovin, a self-taught photographer renowned for his humanistic documentary style, focused on the lives of working-class people, often in Buffalo and its surroundings like Amherst. His black-and-white photographs eschew glamour, instead honoring the dignity of laborers through unposed, empathetic portrayals. Created during...
About the Artist
Milton Rogovin
Milton Rogovin (1909–2011), an American social documentary photographer, was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents amid the hardships of the Great Depression, which profoundly shaped his lifelong commitment to illuminating the dignity of working-class people. After attending Stuyvesant High School, he earned a B.S. in optometry from Columbia University in 1931 and late...