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Alan Pogue (born 1946, Corpus Christi, Texas) is a photojournalist who works exclusively in black-and-white still documentary photography. His career focuses on social justice and Texas politics from the early 1970s to the present.〔() ''Witness for Justice - The Documentary Photographs of Alan Pogue'', University of Texas Press〕 Pogue's work is impelled by "unstoppable activism and commitment".〔() Roy L. Flukinger,Senior Curator of Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center〕 His striking images have an unimposing, intimate quality. His travels have taken him around the world, including Cuba, Pakistan, Iraq, Chiapas, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, and Rio Grand valley of Texas. ==Early years== At the age of nine, Pogue had a vivid and detailed experience, when a mental picture of a street scene was imprinted in his mind, as if a photograph had been taken. Later, as a young chaplain headed to serve in the Vietnam War, his mother gave him a Kodak Instamatic. She asked him to send her pictures because she knew he wasn't going to write. Disillusioned with the US Army Chaplain Corp he was assigned to, he volunteered as a front-line medic, with the 198th Light Infantry Brigade. This took him to the front lines, providing ample opportunity for taking pictures. These snapshots of G.I.s and Vietnamese piqued his interest and became the impetus for his career in documentary photography. During the 1968 Tet offensive, he endured shelling and witnessed a member of his unit being shot to death, leading him to question the justification of the war. Taking Instamatic snap shots in Vietnam was just the beginning of his career in photography.〔 Returning to the United States, Pogue enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin to study philosophy. He became the staff photographer for the university's underground paper, ''The Rag'', published in Austin, Texas, during the '60s and '70s. By living frugally he was free to follow his heart and choose subjects he cared about. He kept his rent low by living in a janitor's closet at the University YMCA, and he found free meals at Les Amis, a cafe that treated him as its artist-in-residence. He survived on wedding and passport work plus his income from the ''Texas Observer'', which paid him $5 a picture.〔 In 1980 Pogue had his first real photography show at Brazos Books. It was there he met Russell Lee, a noted photographer from the depression era Farm Security Administration. Lee befriended Pogue and became his mentor. At their last meeting before Lee died in 1986 Lee made Pogue commit to never abandon black-and-white still photography. Pogue promised and has kept his word.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Pogue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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