The original Dorchester Days is a classic self-published edition, chronicling life in Eugene Richards´ home town of Dorchester, Massachusetts in the 1970s. Although all the photographs are taken within a few streets of each other, the book represents a snapshot of small town America in the 1970s, and as such has a far more wide-reaching resonance. Racial tension, violence, poverty and crime: it is a powerful portrayal of a town and a nation in a state of transition and decline. In this new edition Richards re-orders and expands the book from the original edition, tackling subjects suchas racism and the Ku Klux Klan head-on in a way that he did not feel able at the time of the original publication.
