Milton Rogovin (1909-2011)

Milton Rogovin is respected internationally as one of America’s finest social documentary photographers. The directness and underlying compassion in his work is comparable to the early twentieth-century photography of Lewis Hine (1874-1940), which ultimately helped protect children and abused workers when it inspired new labor laws. Rogovin’s concern about the well-being and uncertain future of teenage mothers and their offspring is captured in his poignant series Children Having Children (1991-1993). He received permission from both the young mothers and their adult parent(s) or caretaker(s) to photograph the mother and child portraits. As was his custom, he gave the sitters a print of their own.