Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs
Histoire, Arts et divertissement
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
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.