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Eugene RichardsFellow
His current book project, War Is Personal (summer 2010), is a documentation in words and pictures of the effects of the Iraq War on the lives of a dozen individuals. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Richards graduated college with a degree in English and journalism, then studied photography for one year with Minor White. In 1968, he joined VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America, a federal program established as an arm of the so-called "War on Poverty." A year and a half later, he helped found a social service organization and a community newspaper, Many Voices, which reported on black political action as well as the Ku Klux Klan. Photographs he made during these years were published in his first book, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. Among numerous honors, Richards has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Olivier Rebbot Awards from the Overseas Press Club, Cannon Photo Essayist Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award for coverage of the disadvantaged. Most recently, he has won a Getty Images grant for Editorial Photography and the 2010 World Press Photo of the Year.
Upcoming/current events: World Press Photo Exhibition around the world (100 cities in 45 different countries) Selected Articles and Photographs: No One Much Cares The Sergeant Lost Within The Emptied Prairie The boys from Iraq War is Personal: Mona Parsons/Age 52/Mt. Vernon, Ohio War is Personal: Carlos Arredondo/Age 45/Roslindale, Massachusetts War is Personal: Tomas Young/Age 26/Kansas City, Missouri After Life Films: Nothing Short of a Miracle (2006) Stepping Through the Ashes War Is Personal: Tomas Young (2006) A Procession of Them (2004) The run-on of time (2003) but, the day came (2000) Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue (1992)
Books: Few Comforts Or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta (1973) Dorchester Days (First Edition, 1978) 50 Hours (1983) Exploding into Life (1986) Below The Line: Living Poor In America (1987)
The Knife and Gun Club (First Edition, 1989)
Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue (1994)
Americans We (1994)
The Knife And Gun Club (Second Edition, 1995) Photo Poche 68 (1997) Dorchester Days (Second Edition, 2000) Eugene Richards 55 (2001) Stepping Through The Ashes (2002)
The Fat Baby (2004) A Procession of Them (2008) The Blue Room (2008)
Upcoming Books: War is Personal (Aperture, September 2010)
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The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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