Grandmother, Brooklyn, NY 1993. By Eugene Richards.

By Paul Goldfinger, photography editor at Blogfinger.net

Eugene Richards is one of America’s finest photojournalists.  He is now 73 years old and is having this retrospective at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, the second oldest photographic museum in the country. The exhibit is called “The Run-On of Time.”

From the Eastman Museum: “Artistic Vision Meets the Documentary Tradition” in this major museum retrospective, Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time, which explores the photographer’s unflinching work going back to 1968. Richards has made extended photo essays focusing on drug addiction, aging, the erosion of rural America, racism, and poverty, among other tough subjects.”  The show opens at the George Eastman Museum June 10.

From the International Center of Photography in NYC:  “Richards, one of the best-known photojournalists in this country, for more than twenty-five years has been recording aspects…