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.
Eugene Richards
Eugene Richards’ photographs have appeared in five issues of the magazine. ‘In the Beginning’, published in Granta 47, documents the birth of Jim and Sara Vogt’s first child, Joshua, in Washington, DC.
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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 Weight of the Earth
Debmalya Ray Choudhuri & John-Baptiste Oduor
‘The presence of another person at the scene is suggested. The image invites you to imagine their position and to mentally assume it.’
Photography by Debmalya Ray Choudhuri, introduced by John-Baptiste Oduor.
Women’s Shadow in the American Western
Thirza Wakefield
‘The wild is no place for women—the film would seem to say.’
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