Portraits in Steel

by Milton Rogovin (Photographer), Michael Frisch (interviewer)

Oral History Association Book Award 1995

This powerful book documents--in images and words--the unsettling experience of a dozen men and women workers who lost their jobs in the steel mills of Buffalo, New York, and had to fashion new lives for themselves. A stunning collection of revealing narratives that bears witness to wrenching changes in the American economy. Photographs.

Genres: Art

280 pages, Paperback

First published May 11, 1993

About the author

Milton Rogovin was a renowned social documentary photographer for over half a century. His photographs stand as a testament to the dignity of working men and women around the world, and fulfill his goal to record through photography those he calls the forgotten ones.

Reviews

[Hubert]

Really nice photographs and excellent interviews. Portraits of lives and of a specific point and time in America as well.