Bring 'em All
Product Code: 509619
Emergency Medicine from the Front Lines
Gain insight into what it's like on the front lines of emergency medicine through breathtaking photo essays and first-person interviews with the men and women who experience it every day. |
| Famed photographer Eugene Richards, influential author of The Knife and Gun Club, captures the breathtaking moments that comprise the lives and careers of American emergency physicians. Through a collection of 50 stirring photo essays, clinicians from across the country share their perspectives and insights on life and death amidst an ever-changing medical landscape. If Anything Is Sacred from Eugene Richards on Vimeo. |
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Eugene Richards, photographer, writer, and filmmaker, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts
in 1944. After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in
English, he studied photography with Minor White. In 1968, he joined VISTA,
Volunteers in Service to America, a government program established as an arm of
the so-called” War on Poverty.” Following a year and a half in eastern
Arkansas, Richards helped found a social service organization and a community
newspaper, Many Voices, which
reported on black political action as well as the Ku Klux Klan.
Photographs he made during these four years were published in his first
monograph, Few Comforts or
Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. Upon returning to Dorchester, Richards began to document the changing, racially diverse neighborhood where he was born. After being invited to join Magnum Photos in 1978, he worked increasingly as a freelance magazine photographer, undertaking assignments on such diverse topics as the American family, drug addiction, emergency medicine, pediatric AIDS, aging and death in America. In 1992, he directed and shot Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, the first of seven short films he would eventually make. |
 Photograph © Jocelyn Bain Hogg
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Richards has published seventeen books. Exploding Into Life, which chronicles his first wife Dorothea Lynch’s struggle with breast cancer, received Nikon's Book of the Year award. For Below The Line: Living Poor in America, his documentation of urban and rural poverty, Richards received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. The Knife & Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room received an Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians. Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, an extensive reportorial on the effects of hardcore drug usage, received the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books. That same year, Americans We was the recipient of the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Best Photographic Book. In 2005, Pictures of the Year International chose The Fat Baby, an anthology of fifteen photographic essays, Best Book of the year. Richards’s most recent books include The Blue Room, a study of abandoned houses in rural America; War Is Personal, an assessment in words and pictures of the human consequences of the Iraq war; and Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down, a remembrance of life on the Arkansas Delta.
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORSGuggenheim Fellowship
W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award
National Endowment for the Arts Grants
International Center of Photography Infinity Awards
Kraszna-Krausz Book Award
Leica Medal of Excellence
Leica Oskar Barnack Award
Olivier Rebbot Award
Amnesty International Media Award
Lyndhurst Prize Lifetime Achievement Visa d'or Award
Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achiement Journalism Award
Missouri Honor Medal
Gahan Lectureship, Harvard University
National Geographic Magazine Grant
Getty Images Grant
POYi Magazine Photographer of the Year
World Press Photo
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SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONSInternational Center of Photography |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art
George Eastman Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
SFMOMA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum Folkwang
Centre Pompidou
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