Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials, History, British
| Author: | John Thomson | ISBN: | 9780486319919 |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications | Publication: | June 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Thomson |
| ISBN: | 9780486319919 |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications |
| Publication: | June 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications |
| Language: | English |
Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays — by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith — that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people. A treasure trove of astonishing historical detail.
Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays — by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith — that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people. A treasure trove of astonishing historical detail.
