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| Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue
[Click on the appropriate flag to buy the book] | Product Details Paperback Aperture Published 1996 From Publishers Weekly Richards's searing photo-essay on inner-city communities devastated by the cocaine-crack epidemic brings into sharp focus the colossal failure of the "war on drugs." His unsparing black-and-white photographs--spliced with interviews with dealers, drug users and frustrated police officers--cover only three locales: North Philadelphia and the Brooklyn, New York, neighborhoods of East New York and Red Hook. Yet the havoc drugs wreak on lives, families and neighborhoods--as cocaine and heroine addiction intersect with poverty, AIDS, homelessness, joblessness and the availability of guns--affects every American city. Richards, who has won many photojournalism awards, neither condemns nor sensationalizes his subjects in his forceful documentary. This volume complements a traveling exhibit opening at Manhattan's International Center for Photography. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
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Aperture: Shared Lives: The Communal Spirit Today (Aperture , Vol 144) Eugene Richards; Laura Wilson (Photographer); Lany Towell (Photographer); Larry Towell (Photographer); & Margaret Morton (Photographer) |  |
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The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room Eugene Richards (Photographer) |  |
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The Fat Baby Eugene Richards (Photographer) |  |
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