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Appalachia
Creator
Milton RogovinAmerican Photographer · 1909–2011
All works by this person →Raised during the Great Depression, Milton Rogovin became politically active as a result of his impoverished childhood. He called himself a "social documentary photographer" and eventually devoted himself to photographing the segment of society he designated "the forgotten ones." Rogovin studied optometry at Columbia University, then opened a shop in Buffalo, New York, in 1938. He purchased his fi
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- 1971
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 077830ea-2156-4340-87b3-1a69ac226da3
What the image shows
A dump truck is parked near a rocky cliff, with a dirt road curving around a small pond.
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A quarry with a dirt road running past, the area below the rocks has filled with water. An excavator works in the background next to a dump truck.
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