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Title: Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue by Eugene Richards ISBN: 0-89381-687-6 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 31 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A documentary must have!
Comment: Eugene Richards, one of the worlds best photojournalist, has a gift to not only photograph well but also write about his subjects equally as well! He shows the world a part of this world many do not see nor wish to see. This is one of those photo books that a good photographer must have to essentially help to chisel a path in the photography world for themselves! Taking this style to learn and grow from! One can learn much by the raw and realness of Richard's Cocaine life pictorial!
Rating: 5
Summary: His best
Comment: Cocaine true, Cocaine Blue represents the best of Eugene Richards. If Robert Capa's maxim about your pictures being close to be good is true, then Richards work is hands down about as close as anyone is getting.
This book focuses on the impact of crack cocaine in three eastern cities -- North Philadelphia, Harlem, and Red Hook, New Jersey.
Richards seems to have none of the fear that would stop most people, because his pictures bring a viewer over the comfort line to become shocking. The scenes exceed imagination. In fact, one of his pictures in this book was challenged for its authenticity because it seemed almost too perfect... In it, a women pauses to look at her John, her hands on his zipper, with her young child watching her. On a wall behind her, a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. is displayed. Some black political leaders saw this picture and insisted that Richards must have set it up. He could only assert that he was truthful in his portrayal.
Truth is always stranger than fiction. This might be photojournalism's answer to magical realism: there is a wickedness and abandon to this world. The cover picture is another example -- the photograph shows an addict holding a syringe in his mouth. His eyes gleam in a way that suggests the insanity in the spirit of this individual.
Richards is for the most part a photographer who works inside America. Some domestic photographers lament that all of the best photographs are made in wars, and that the situations in our home communities preclude us from being able to make great pictures. Eugene Richards shows how this is false. He takes horrifying pictures in Long Island, in Philadelphia, in West Virginia, in Kansas City.
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Title: Dorchester Days by Eugene Richards ISBN: 0714840017 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Below the Line: Living Poor in America N the 1980's by Eugene Richards, Christiane Bird, Janine Altongy ISBN: 0890430616 Publisher: Consumer Reports Pub. Date: August, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room by Eugene Richards ISBN: 0871136236 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Stepping Through the Ashes by Eugene Richards, Janine Altongy ISBN: 1931788014 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Inferno by James Nachtwey ISBN: 0714838152 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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