The Harvey Richards’ Film & Photo Collection consists of 22 documentary films made from 1958 to 1972 documenting the political upheaval of the 1960s, and his collected still photography.  Focusing on the West Coast, where Richards lived, the films’ subjects include California farm workers, the civil rights movements in California and Mississippi, the environmental destruction of western natural resources by the forestry and mining industries, and the peace movement.  Richards’ films were used as organizing aids by the United Farm Workers, the Sierra Club, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and others, and have been included in countless documentaries made by film makers around the world since the 1960s.  All 22 films are available as DVD’s and video cassettes. 

 

Richards not only shot still photos in all his motion picture projects; he also carried his 35 mm and 120 mm still cameras with him on trips around the world and has left us a breathtaking collection of images of the world that he inhabited.