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| Keywords: London Cabmen.jpg http //archives lse ac uk/Record aspx src CalmView Catalog id SR+1146 archives lse ac uk/Record aspx src CalmView Catalog i <br/>Street Life in London published in 1876-7 consists of a series of articles by the radical journalist Adolphe Smith and the photographer John Thomson The pieces are short but full of detail based on interviews with a range of men and women who eked out a precarious and marginal existence working on the streets of London including flower-sellers chimney-sweeps shoe-blacks chair-caners musicians dustmen and locksmiths The subject matter of Street Life was not new “ the second half of the 19th century saw an increasing interest in urban poverty and social conditions “ but the unique selling point of Street Life was a series of photographs ˜taken from life ™ by Thomson The authors felt at the time that the images lent authenticity to the text and their book is now regarded as a key work in the history of documentary photography http //www flickr com/photos/lselibrary/5600367314/ London Cabmen Uploaded by Fæ 1877 John Thomson 1837-1921 PD-Old-80 Flickr-no known copyright restrictions File Upload Bot Magnus Manske May 28 2011 Street Life in London 1877 Sepia photographs of London Hansom cabs Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
