Witness for Justice The Documentary Photographs of Alan Pogue

Name: Witness for Justice The Documentary Photographs of Alan Pogue
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ISBN: 9780292717220

ISBN-10: 0292717229

ISBN-13: 9780292717220

Edition: 2007

Authors: Alan Pogue

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Alan Pogue began taking photographs during the Vietnam War, prompted by "an urge to record what shocked me as well as what was beautiful." His desire to bear witness to the full range of human experience matured into a career in documentary photography that has spanned four decades and many parts of the globe from his native Texas to the Middle East. Working in the tradition of socially committed photographers such as Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, and the photographers of the Farm Security Administration, particularly Russell Lee and Dorothea Lange, Pogue has been a witness for justice, using the camera to capture the human context and to call attention to conditions needing remediation. This…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 156
Size: 10.98" wide x 10.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English

Alan Pogue is an award-winning documentary photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and published in numerous national and international periodicals, including the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Kyodo News Japan, Photo District News, and Texas Monthly. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he has been the chief photographer for the Texas Observer magazine since 1972.



Foreword



Introduction



The Photographs