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A half-century of social documentary from the acclaimed American photographer, with previously unseen worksIn this deeply personal book, Eugene Richards (born 1944) excavated a collection of more than 50 years of mostly unseen photographsfrom his earliest pictures of sharecropper life in the Arkansas Delta to the present. In the midst of a fraught political climatepandemic, rise in gun violence, polarized politics and the devastation in BeirutRichards found himself meditating on what it means to make socially conscious documentary photography today. Upon his son's suggestion, he began to post his photographs on social media, sifting through dusty binders of contact sheetsphotographs taken for a community newspaper, on assignment for magazines, as a volunteer for human rights organizations, when wandering alone and at home with his familyand scanning the negatives.In This Brief Life compiles these works, along with personal commentary and extensive

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A diaristic photographic portrait of the memory-laden Mississippi Delta of ArkansasFifty years ago, New Yorkbased photographer Eugene Richards (born 1944) worked as a VISTA Volunteer and then as a reporter in the Arkansas Delta. Even after the newspaper he helped found closed its doors, Richards kept revisiting the region. In early 2019 he returned to the small town of Earle, Arkansas, where, on a September night in 1970, peaceful protesters were attacked by a crowd of white men and women brandishing sticks and firing guns. Crossing the tracks from what had been the Black side of the town into the white side of the town, Richards happened upon an old appliance store. On the shadowy and cracked walls of the building were painted the faces of Jesus, Malcolm X, H. Rap Brown, Angela Davis, Dr. Martin Luther King and John Brownthe faces of revolution, reconciliation, change. In the months that followed, the old store became for Richards a kind of portal, a doorway

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