Photographer Milton Rogovin Preserved the faces of Those With Silenced Voices - Randy Kennedy - NYTimes.com

Milton Rogovin Preserved the faces of Those With Silenced Voices - Randy Kennedy - NYTimes.com

Randy Kennedy for NYT.com, "Mr. Rogovin was an optometrist whose business was decimated and his children shunned after he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1958. An article published that year in The New York Times reported that friendly witnesses described him as “the chief Communist in the area.” He turned to photography because his “voice was essentially silenced,” as he once said. What followed was more than 40 years of powerfully straightforward pictures of others without voices: the poor and working class of Buffalo’s East Side and Lower West Side, Appalachia, Mexico, Chile and other countries."

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The Conscience of Nhem En

"The Conscience of Nhem En, explores conscience and complicity in the

story of a young soldier responsible for taking the ID photos of thousands of innocent people before they were tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Nhem En was 16 years old when he was the staff photographer at the notorious Tuol Sleng Prison, also know as Security-21 or S-21, where, from 1975 to 1979, 17,000 people were registered and photographed, then imprisoned and tortured, before they were killed."

http://www.farfilm.com/web/title_cne.htm

Photographer Lauren Greenfield :Exhibit - Thin and Girl Culture

"Thin and Girl Culture are two series of contemporary documentary photographs by Lauren Greenfield. Both deal with the complex ways girls and women relate to their bodies, though in very different ways."

http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/exhibitions/thin/index.htm