Eugene Richards

Euguene Richards (born 1944, Dorchester, Massachusetts) is a noted American documentary photographer.

During the 1960s Richards was a civil rights activist and VISTA volunteer. After receiving a BA in English from Northeastern University his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were supervised by photographer Minor White.

Richards' published photographs are mostly intended as a means of raising social awareness, have been characterized as "highly personal" and are both exhibited and published in a series of books. The first book was "Few Comforts or Surprises" (1973), a depiction of rural poverty in Arkansas; but it was his second book, the self-published "Dorchester Days" (1978), a "homecoming" to Dorchester, Massachusetts, where Richards had grown up, that won most attention. It is "an angry, bitter book", both political and personal.Gerry Badger, in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, "The Photobook: A History," vol. 2 (London: Phaidon, 2006; ISBN 0-7148-4433-0), 30.] Gerry Badger writes that " [Richards's] involvement with the people he is photographing is total, and he is one of the best of photojournalists in getting that across, often helped by his own prose".

Richards has been a member of Magnum Photos and of VII. He lives in New York. [" [http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/richards_eugene.php Eugene Richards] ", Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), retrieved 17 February 2008.]

Books of Richards's work

*"Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1973. ISBN 0262180626.
*"Dorchester Days". Wollaston, Mass.: Many Voices Press, 1978. 2nd ed. (revised and expanded). London: Phaidon, 2000. ISBN 0-7148-4001-7.
*With Dorothea Lynch. "50 Hours". New York: Many Voices, 1983. ISBN 0394620232.
*With Dorothea Lynch. "Exploding into Life". New York: Aperture in association with Many Voices Press, 1986. ISBN 0893811777.
*"Below the Line: Living Poor in America". Mount Vernon, NY: Consumers Union, 1987. ISBN 0890430616 (paperback); ISBN 0890430624 (hardback). Text ed. Christiane Bird, story researched by Janine Altongy.
*"The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room." New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. ISBN 0871132559. 2nd ed. 1995.
*With Edward Barnes. "Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue". New York: Aperture, 1994. ISBN 0893815438 (hardback), ISBN 0893815640 (paperback). New York: Aperture, 1996. ISBN 0893816876.
*"Americans We: Photographs and Notes". New York: Aperture, 1994. ISBN 0893815942.
*"Eugene Richards". Photo Poche. Paris: Nathan, 1997.
*"Eugene Richards". Phaidon 55. London and New York: Phaidon, 2001. Text by Charles Bowden.
*"Stepping through the Ashes". New York: Aperture, 2002. ISBN 1931788014. With interviews by Janine Altongy.
*"The Fat Baby." London: Phaidon, 2004. ISBN 071484196X.

Videos of Richards

*Lassiter, Kenneth T., Gary Bechtold, et al. "Techniques of the Masters" (videoconference, April 18, 1991). 1991.
*Richards, Eugene. "Eugene Richards Photographer of the Year." Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Company, 1991.

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External links

* [http://www.eugenerichards.com/ Eugene Richards]
*" [http://www.viiphoto.com/photographer-bio.php?photographer=Eugene%20Richards Eugene Richards portfolio] ", vii.