Eugene Richards
author · photographer · designer
Eugene Richards is an American documentary photographer, writer, and filmmaker known for his unflinching and poetic documentation of the human experience. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he received a B.A. in English from Northeastern University before studying photography under Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work often explores profound themes such as birth, death, family, poverty, prejudice, and mental health. Richards has been a member of Magnum Photos and the VII Photo Agency. He is recognized for his ability to capture the texture of lived experience in both intimate personal portraits and large-scale social documentary projects.[1,2,4,5]
- human experience
- poverty
- prejudice
- mental health
- drug addiction
Books
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Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue€89.00 -
Dorchester Days€56.00
Works by Eugene Richards
- 1994 Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue Photographs and text by Eugene Richards; designed by Eugene Richards.
- Few Comforts or Surprises
- Dorchester Days
- 50 Hours
- Exploding into Life
- Below the Line
- The Knife and Gun Club
- Americans We
- Stepping Through the Ashes
- The Fat Baby
- A Procession of Them
- The Blue Room
- War is Personal
- Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down
- The Day I Was Born
- In This Brief Life
- Remembrance Garden
- Do I Know You?
Exhibitions
- 2018 Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time
Awards
- 1993 Leica Oskar Barnack Award