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  • Photographer Milton Rogovin dies at age 101 in NY

    01/18/2011 11:21:45 AM PST · by Borges · 16 replies
    Yahoo - AP ^ | 01/18/11 | CAROLYN THOMPSON
    Milton Rogovin, a social documentary photographer who built a life's work by looking through a lens at people who were invisible to others, died Tuesday at age 101. Rogovin was in hospice care after a brief illness and died at his home in Buffalo surrounded by family, said his son, Mark. After being blacklisted in the communist scare of the 1950s, Rogovin dedicated his life to photography. His pictures documented the lives of the poor, the dispossessed, the working class — in particular those living in a six-square-block neighborhood in Buffalo near his optometry practice. "He referred to these people...