Photograph by Eugene Richards

Image Title: Wading Pool, Dorchester, Massachusettes

Paper Dimensions (H x W): 13x19

Image Dimensions (H x W): 11.5 x17

Medium: Archival Inkjet Print

Year Created: 1976

Signed on bottom right

Photographer's Bio: Eugene Richards, photographer, writer, and filmmaker, studied photography with Minor White. His first book of photographs, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta, was based on his experiences in the late 1960's working for VISTA in Arkansas. 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. For Below The Line: Living Poor in America, Richards received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, an extensive reportorial on hardcore drug usage, received the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books. He received the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Best Photographic Book for Americans We and Pictures of the Year International chose The Fat Baby, an anthology of fifteen photographic essays, as Best Book of the year in 2005. 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.

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