Eugene Richards, In This Brief Life

Having sifted through his archives, Eugene Richards, the masterful American documentary photographer, launches a fundraising appeal for his new book, In This Brief Life. The volume represents an intimate look at a fifty-year-long career with handpicked, mostly unpublished images. Blind talks with the photographer.

Eugene Richards’s first job was as a social worker. That was when he started taking portraits of life’s castaways, of those forgotten, of those we avoid looking at. Born in 1944 in Dorchester, Mass., the photographer has always offered glimpses of hu...

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