Background
Eugene Richards was born on April 25, 1944, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States.
Eugene Richards received a B.A. in English from Northeastern University in 1967.
He began studying photography with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968.
Eugene Richards received a B.A. in English from Northeastern University in 1967.
He began studying photography with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968.
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This is Eugene Richards' 1972 photographic essay, a social document of his home town of Dorchester, Massachusetts. The book includes additional pictures and a text that speaks of racial tension, violence, poverty and crime.
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The Fat Baby is a collection of stories photographed and written by Eugene Richards. The culmination of a dozen years of reporting, both on and off assignment, these stories, each one different in style and tone, immerse us in the lives of Honduran coffee growers, members of a Kansas City street gang, drought-plagued villagers from Niger, and doctors in an embattled Bosnian hospital. They chronicle the birth of a first child, an explosion of family violence, the struggle of a farm family to hang onto its ancestral home, and the unearthing of a half-hidden grave said to hold the remains of a slave.
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Eugene Richards was born on April 25, 1944, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States.
Eugene Richards received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Northeastern University in 1967. After that he began studying photography with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the following year.
Eugene Richards helped to found in 1968 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 that time were published in his first monograph "Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta".
Richards worked as an instructor of photography at Art Institute of Boston between 1974 and 1976 and at the Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1977.
Upon returning to Dorchester, Richards began to document the changing, racially diverse neighborhood where he was born. After being invited to join Magnum Photos in 1978, he worked increasingly as a freelance magazine photographer, undertaking assignments on such diverse topics as the American family, drug addiction, emergency medicine, pediatric AIDS, aging and death in America. In 1992, he directed and shot "Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue", the first of seven short films he would eventually make.
Richards has published seventeen books. Among them are "Exploding Into Life", "Below The Line: Living Poor in America" and The Knife & Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room". Richards’s most recent books include "The Blue Room", a study of abandoned houses in rural America; "War Is Personal", an assessment in words and pictures of the human consequences of the Iraq war; and "Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down", a remembrance of life on the Arkansas Delta.
Richards’ work as a photographer has won him international fame, and he’s now staged many high-profile exhibitions. Moreover, Richards's photographs have been exhibited in more than 40 solo shows in the United States and abroad.
Richards currently lives in New York City.
Eugene Richards is known as one of the best photojournalists in the country. For more than twenty-five years he has been recording aspects of urban lives and painful human experiences that many people never witness.
Among his honours are the 1981 W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund; the 1986 Nikon Book Award for Exploding into Life; the 1987 Infinity Award for Journalism from the International Center of Photography, for his documentation of American poverty in "Below the Line: Living Poor in America"; and the 1995 Infinity Award for Publications for "American We". He also received an Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians for his work "The Knife & Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room" and the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books for his work "Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue". In 2005, Pictures of the Year International chose "The Fat Baby", an anthology of fifteen photographic essays, Best Book of the year.
Among his other numerous honours were also a Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club, three Canon Photo Essayist Awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award for coverage of the disadvantaged. A film written and directed by Richards "But, the day came" was named Best Short Film at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Besides, in 2014 he won Missouri Honour Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
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Richards has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1978 and of VII Photo Agency.
Quotes from others about the person
Gerry Badger: "Richards's involvement with the people he is photographing is total, and he is one of the best of photojournalists in getting that across, often helped by his own prose."
Cornell Capa: "Richards is a concerned photographer, and his concern is honest without a doubt."
Richards' graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were supervised by photographer Minor White.
