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Article: Eugene Richards: social realist. (Illustration)
- Article from:
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Working in the tradition of Jacob Riis, Walker Evans, and Robert Frank, Eugene Richards has spent his career documenting conditions on the front lines of violence, drug addiction, poverty, racism, and cancer.
His first journalistic experience was in the Klan-infested Arkansas Delta, where he ran a small community newspaper after serving as a VISTA volunteer in the late sixties. A book, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta, about black sharecroppers, grew out of that work. Subsequent books include Exploding Into Life, which documented the cancer death of his wife; The Knife and Gun Club, which explored gang violence through the prism of a big-city emergency ...
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Article: Richards remembered as trailblazer.
Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX);
September 15, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... Gallaspy Sep. 15--Former Gov. Ann Richards was remembered Thursday by Southeast ... Texas well with her vibrant personality. Richards, who won a single term as governor in ... after a battle with esophageal cancer. Richards will lie in state in the Texas Capitol ...
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