Victorian London street life in historic photographs / John Thomson, text by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.

Contributor:

Smith, Adolphe.

Standardized Title:

Street life in London

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Social life and customs--19th century--Pictorial works.

London (England).

Physical Description:

134 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1994.

Summary:

This extraordinary book is both a landmark in the emerging art of photography and a fascinating document of social realism. Reproduced from a rare original 1877 edition, it presents 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson. His subjects are London's lower classes -- Covent Garden flower women, laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and more. Each photograph is accompanied by an essay in which the subjects tell their own stories.

Notes:

Originally published: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877.

ISBN:

0486281213 :

OCLC:

30075059