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An archive of Sound Portraits books and magazine articles.

Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones By Dave Isay, David Miller, and Harvey Wang

Four decades of portraits from Buffalo's inner city by photographer Milton Rogovin, with oral histories by Sound Portraits.

Flophouse By David Isay and Stacy Abramson Photographs by Harvey Wang

Flophouse chronicles the vanishing world of the flophouses along America's largest and most infamous skid row, the Bowery. Shimmering with humanity and utterly devoid of false sentiment, the voices of residents in these shelters are a powerful reminder that even on the margins, life defies all attempts at reduction.

Our America By LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman with David Isay Photographs by John Brooks

LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, two young men living in one of the most notorious public housing projects in America, have made it their mission to be loud voices out of a dark place. Set against stunning photographs by John Brooks, another young resident of the projects, Our America evokes the unforgiving world of these two amazing young men and their struggle to survive unrelenting tragedy. With a gift for clear-eyed journalism, they tell their own stories and the stories others, including that of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was dropped to his death from the fourteenth floor of an Ida B. Wells apartment building by two other boys.

Holding On By David Isay Photographs by Harvey Wang

Holding On is a tribute to some of America's greatest characters, people holding on to unique ways of life at all costs. David Isay's compelling, often humorous profiles are accompanied by Harvey Wang's portraits of fifty such people, die-hard individualists who speak for themselves, illuminating their remarkable lives and personalities.

Twelve American Voices By Maurice Cogan Hauck with Kenneth MacDougall Based on radio documentaries by David Isay

Twelve American Voices is unique textbook for students studying English as a second language that uses Sound Portraits radio shorts to explore the rich regional and ethnic varieties of the language. Part of the Yale Language Series for English as a Second Language from Yale University Press.

John Michael Lamb's oral history New York Times Magazine January 2, 2000

John Michael Lamb, the 587th death-row inmate executed since the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty in 1976, talks to David Isay and Stacy Abramson one week before his execution.

Vaughn Meader's oral history New York Times Magazine November 21, 1999

Vaughn Meader, the man behind "The First Family," the musical spoof of the Kennedys that became the best-selling album in history, talks to David Isay about his life and the death of the president he had become famous for impersonating.

Maude McLeod's oral history New York Times Magazine September 26, 1999

Maude McLeod, the oldest member of New York's black Hebrew community, speaks with David Isay about her faith and the skepticism it engenders.

Sylvia Rivera's oral history New York Times Magazine June 27, 1999

Sylvia Rivera, a drag queen who led the charge at the Stonewall Riots when she was 17, talks to David Isay about her life since then.

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