A well-known advocate for poor and underprivileged people in America, social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin died in January at the age of 101.

Influenced by photographers such as Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, he bought his first camera in 1942 and began to take stark black-and-white images as a hobby.

Rogovin began his career as an optometrist, but his compassion for the disadvantaged inhabitants of his....