American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Reason

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Documenting the Lower West Side

[Johnny Lee Wines & Ezekiel "Zeke" Johnson at Lotempio's Restaurant, Buffalo New York]
Milton Rogovin (b. 1909)
[Johnny Lee Wines & Ezekiel "Zeke" Johnson at Lotempio's Restaurant, Buffalo New York], no. 90
[Johnny Lee Wines & Ezekiel Johnson, Buffalo New York], no. 91
[Johnny Lee Wines & Ezekiel Johnson, Buffalo New York], no. 92
Gelatin silver prints,
1973, 1984, 1992
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Artist and Family ( 143.7a-c)
Digital ID #s ppmsca-06764, ppmsca-09914, ppmsca-09915

In the early 1970s, Milton Rogovin photographed working families on Buffalo's Lower West Side. He documented these same individuals in the 1980s and again in 1992, providing an amazing portrait of families over time. Working in the style of a social documentary photographer, Rogovin's dignified portraits speak of the dreams and aspirations common to humanity. Milton Rogovin and his family recently donated his photographic archive to the Library of Congress, including this series taken of Robert "Chino" Montalvo, Johnny Lee Wines and Ezekiel Johnson, photographed over an almost twenty-year period.

"Chino" and Baby
Milton Rogovin
["Chino" and Baby], no.9
[Robert "Chino" Montalvo as a boy, Buffalo,
New York
], no. 10
[Robert "Chino" Montalvo with his baby, Buffalo, New York], no. 11
Gelatin silver prints, 1972, 1984, 1992
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Artist and Family (138.2a-2c)
Digital ID#s ppmsca-09910, 09911, 09912

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