Americans
Eugene Richards
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Two sisters, one with Alzheimer's, New York.
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Mrs Brown's last hours, Harlem.
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'Americans We', South Boston, Massachusetts.
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Garbage, Earle, Arkansas.
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Cuban refugees, Key West.
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'Killer', Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Ohio.
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Angry boxer, Roxbury, Massachusetts
From hospitals for the criminally insane to elderly sisters with brain disorders, Eugene Richard’s portraits are a haunting and intimate look inside America.
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Philadelphia
Eugene Richards
‘The ‘War Zone’ in Philadelphia is just north of the centre, about a mile and a half from City Hall and across the Street from Temple University.’
Emergency Room
Eugene Richards
‘I saw cuts, burns, broken limbs, heart attacks, and then, what's inside the human body.’
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Dorothea Lynch & Eugene Richards
‘We women, how in the dark we are about our bodies and what can happen to them. We ask in whispers in the corner at a party or on the telephone, what does a breast lump feel like? What does cancer look like? Will I be all right?’
The Institute
Maia Siegel
‘The Institute was meeting at Yale, at a corner bar with a pool table and subpar beer. It was only a society at this point, attempting to build itself out.’
Fiction by Maia Siegel.
Something Happened
Madeline Cash
‘She is thorough in a way that is off putting to people. It makes for a good secretary, not a good conversationalist.’
Fiction by Madeline Cash.
Bleak Midwinter
Catherine Taylor
‘In a sense, we had been waiting for the Ripper to visit for months, even years.’
