The Alchemy of Photographer Milton Rogovin

“His dogged black-and-white documentation of those he called ‘the forgotten ones’ – mine workers, steel workers, Native Americans, the town and country poor of all races, especially black – could be dismissed by art-world formalists as politically, but not artistically, important. … [But] his whole enterprise [was] a humanist slap to the faces of those who hide behind art to ignore the world.”