Special Articles, Reviews & Notices

1999

The Washington Post, 9/6/99
Lead Editorial, "Labor Day: Real People," cites THE QUIET SICKNESS Photography Exhibit at the U.S. Department of Labor Headquarters

Lexington Herald-Leader, 9/6/99
Full-page photo spread entitled, "Hard, dirty work," featuring poultry, textile and coal industry workers from current exhibit at the Appalshop Gallery in Whitesburg, Kentucky

The Washington Post, 9/3/99
Business Section Feature entitled, "A 25-Year Cross Country Chronicle, Snapshots on the State of Workplace Safety."
The article by Cindy Skrzycki states, "Dotter's work, representing 25 years of workplace history, shows in black and white the gritty reality of what it is like to work in the closed space of a mine, the devastation of losing a life from work related injury, and the reduced circumstances of families who lose a breadwinner to a dangerous job." The article quotes Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman's observations about THE QUIET SICKNESS exhibit on display at the U.S. Department of Labor Headquarters in Washington, DC.

The Louisville Kentucky Courier-Journal, 7/15/99
Feature article by Kimberly Hefling entitled "Photos Focus on Miners' Struggles," consists primarily of an interview with Earl Dotter as he installed the APPALACHIAN CHRONICLE exhibit in the Appalshop Gallery in Whitesburg, KY.

1998

The Synergist Magazine, August issue, contains a biographical article by Elizabeth Simon entitled, "The Quiet Activist: Earl Dotter And The Art of Workplace Photography." The cover story article consists of four pages and five photographs.

1997

The Sunday Rutland Herald and The Sunday Times Argus, 10/12/97, Vermont Report
"In This State" Column by Will Lindner entitled, "Photographer Aims Lens at Hazards of Working World." The column provides details about THE QUIET SICKNESS exhibit on display in Burlington, Vermont as part of the exhibit's tour of New England sponsored by The Harvard School of Public Health's Occupational Health Program.

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