About this artwork
Rogovin made a point of covering all types of mine workings in Scotland on his tour, from simple slope mines – a hillside shaft inclined downwards towards the seam – to the modernised ‘super pits’ at Monktonhall, or Bilston Glen in Midlothian. This shot is taken at a drift mine – a shaft driven horizontally into the side of a hill – in west Fife. This may have been one of the private pits that he visited, where conditions and health and safety measures were more basic than in the National Coal Board pits.
Updated March 2024
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artist:Milton Rogovin (1909 - 2011) American
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title:Family of Miners, Scotland, 1982
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date created:1982
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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measurements:18.20 x 15.40 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Gift 2006
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accession number:PGP 371.20
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Milton Rogovin
Milton Rogovin
Milton Rogovin was an American social documentary photographer. Born in New York, Rogovin had experienced the Great Depression of the 1930s. It left a profound impression on him which fuelled his empathy with the plight of working-class people. He practised as an optometrist in Buffalo, New York...