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This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition In Focus: Animalia

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Milton Rogovin: The Mining Photographs Valentine 2024 and a favorite of crownedJudith Keller Born in New York in 1909, Milton Rogovin has been photographing coal miners since 1962, working first in Appalachia and later, in the 1980s, in Europe, Asia, South Africa, China, Mexico, and Cuba. Particularly in these later portraits he concentrated on the lives of miners as revealed at work and at home. Men and women portrayed at a mine entrance or in a changing room, covered in coal dust, are barely recognizable in the accompanying