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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Street Life in London (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Trade paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Dover Edition. Trade paperback. 1994. Dover Edition. ISBN 0486281213. Very good trade paperback. Light shelf wear and minor edge and corner wear. Interior appears clean and securely bound. John Thomson's pioneering photographs and Adolphe Smith's text document the working people and street life of Victorian London. Please see all photographs for condition and identifying details. Orders ship within 2 business days. Domestic standard shipping is via USPS Media Mail. Priority Mail upgrade available. Books are securely packaged to prevent damage in transit. Delivery times are estimates provided by USPS and are not guaranteed. For the satisfaction of our customers, we DO NOT and WILL NEVER use OSM Worldwide or third-party mail consolidators. Not Signed.…

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A compelling photographic journey into the gritty reality of Victorian London street life, captured by the pioneering photographers John Thomson and Adolphe Smith. This paperback edition, published by Courier Corporation in 1994, presents an invaluable visual record of the city's underbelly, focusing on the working classes, street vendors, and the destitute. The historic photographs offer a profound glimpse into social conditions and urban life in the late 19th century, making this an essential resource for historians, social scientists, and photography enthusiasts. Condition: Paperback in Very Good condition. The pages are clean, and the binding remains tight, ensuring the book's structural integrity.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. Step into the bustling streets of Victorian London and encounter the city's vibrant underbelly through the lens of social realism. This book delves into the lives of street vendors, laborers, and those dwelling on the fringes of society, offering a poignant glimpse into their struggles, resilience, and moments of joy amidst adversity. Drawing inspiration from earlier works like Henry Mayhew's "London Labour and the London Poor," this book captures the essence of a bygone era when poverty was no longer perceived as an enemy but as a societal challenge demanding systematic solutions. Through vivid descriptions and evocative photographs, the author sheds light on the harsh realities faced by London's working class, from the Covent Garden flower women to the cab drivers navigating the city's labyrinthine streets. This book invites readers to explore the complexities of Victorian society, challenging preconceived notions about the poor and revealing the human stories behind the statistics. It is a testament to the enduring spirit of those who persevered in the face of hardship, reminding us that the challenges and triumphs of urban life transcend time and place. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

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4to. (284 x 222 mm). pp. (i), 100 (including 21 leaves with plates). Title, list of plates and twenty-one monochrome Woodburytype photographs, each mounted on card within a red border with title in red. Original publisher's green cloth, with gilt title and elaborate decoration in blind and gilt figures from 'Covent Garden Flower Women' and 'the London Boardmen', printed floral endpapers, later cloth box with label with pictorial title to front board and label with title to spine (both taken from the binding itself). Street Incidents, John Thomson's photographic depictions of London's street life. Published as a shortened version of Thomson's earlier Street Life in London, Street Incidents contains 16 fewer plates, though apart from the altered title the binding is the same. It is unknown whether the plates were reprinted due to the popularity of the work or whether the present volume was reissued with fewer plates to ensure sale of the publisher's stock. Thomson's photographs in 'Street Life in London' and the commentary upon the images by Thomson and Adolphe Smith, depict a London in which life is a harsh and continuous struggle. The characters on view here are familiar to us more from Dickens' novels or from an idea of the Whitechapel of Jack the Ripper than from any nostalgic image of a strait-laced or patrician Victorianism. Each image is accompanied by descriptive text. Thomson and Smith are sympathetic to the objects of their study and seem intent on cataloguing the variety of types to be found rather than attempting any Barnum-like freakshow. As Thomson himself writes: 'The precision and accuracy of photography enables us to present true types of the London poor and shield us from the accusation of either underrating or exaggerating individual peculiarities of appearance'. 'Street Life in London . constitutes the first photographic social documentation of any kind.' (Gernsheim - The History of Photography pg. 447). ' . one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history.' (The Photobook I, 48). [Parr / Badger I, 48; see Gernsheim pg. 447].…

First edition, perhaps bound from the serialized parts, with a preface that was omitted in the collected edition. In this landmark work of social documentary photography, Thomson and Smith used the "unquestionable accuracy" (p. v) of the camera lens to represent everyday life of the urban poor. It set a precedent for documentary practices that would flourish in the following century. Each image in Street Life in London is accompanied by an essay featuring extensive observation on its subject and interviews reported first-hand. The result is a fully realized record of the trades, hardships, and personalities of late Victorian London, from recruiting sergeants to fruit sellers and street sweepers. Perhaps the most affecting photograph is titled "The Crawler", which depicts a destitute woman holding a child. Her evident vulnerability "establishes an immediate psychological intimacy with the viewer. It is shocking, a portent of the much more involved and intimate social documentary mode of the twentieth century" (Parr & Badger). Thomson (1837-1921) began his career as a travel photographer, journeying extensively throughout East Asia, especially China. His images from his travels included a vast range of subjects, from kings and politicians to peasants and the homeless; this experience made him "uniquely suited to take on the poverty in his own back yard" upon his return to Britain (Hannavy, p. 1389). Smith (1846-1925) was a left-wing activist as well as a writer; he claimed to have narrowly escaped execution as part of the Paris Commune. Parr & Badger I, p. 48. John Hannavy, ed., Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, 2008. Quarto (270 x 196 mm). 36 plates, with tissue guards, containing 37 woodburytype photographs, bordered and captioned in red. Contemporary blue half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, spine decorated in gilt and blind, red morocco label, red pebble-grain cloth sides, orange endpapers, edges sprinkled red. Stripping to calf, wear to corners, retouched, outer leaves foxed, occasionally extending to contents: a very good copy.…

First edition. First edition. Complete with 37 Woodburytype photographs mounted to 36 leaves. [4], 100 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The first edition of this pioneering use of photography for sociological study. The Scotsman Thomson (1837-1921) spent the decade 1862-1872 traveling in and producing some of the finest early photographic images of the Far East. After resettling in Britain, he joined forces with Adolphe Smith to produce this "important monthly publication . which pioneered the genre of photojournalism, combining hard-hitting, albeit posed, street photography, with documentary-style prose" (ODNB). It was originally published in monthly parts. A second, much abridged issue (with only 21 photos) appeared three years later, bound from incomplete remainder sheets. Subjects include a convicts' home, "Caney" the Clown, Covent Garden flower women, flying dustmen, London cabmen, London nomades, street doctors, seller of shell-fish, street fruit trade, workers on the "silent highway" etc. Half blue calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, morocco label. Slight lean, some marginal thumbsoiling, repaired tear above imprint on title page, small blemish to 2 or 3 images but photos generally fine Complete with 37 Woodburytype photographs mounted to 36 leaves. [4], 100 pp. 1 vols. 4to.…

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher's pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson's original dry-plate negatives, each with printed caption and red ruled border, mounted as individual plates on the rectos of the leaves between pages 3 and 43; all of the woodburytpes and their page mounts are in superb condition, without fading or foxing; title page and last page of text with browning (as in other examples), upper margins of a few text pages with mild insect damage, hinges cracked but holding. The first use of published photographs as social documentary. In 1877-78 John Thomson had first collaborated with radical socialist writer Adolphe Smith Headingley in creating 36 photographs accompanied by textual commentary for the monthly parts of Street Life in London. Of this collaborationJohn Hannavy, inThe Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, wrote: 'The bringing together of the photographer John Thomson and the left-wing political writer and activist Adolphe Smith Headingley to work on the project which resulted in Street Life of London (1877-78), was a logical progression from the collaboration between Richard Beard and Henry Mayhew more than two decades earlier on Mayhew's study of London Labour and the London Poor. Headingley, who wrote under the name of Adolphe Smith, was relatively unknown when he and Thomson collaborated on Street Life and the pairing was an inspired one. Both men had sympathy towards the living and working conditions of their subjects.' In 1878 the twelve monthly parts ofStreet Lifewere reissued in book form; in 1881 an abridged version, Street Incidents,was published which retained the 1878 text but included only 21 of the 36 photographs (the present edition). Street Incidentswas issued essentially as a new work, and the publishers do not credit Thomson as the creator of the strikingly sharp imagesphotomechanically reproduced by the Woodburytype process from the photographer?s original dry-plate negatives. The images in Street Incidents are titled as follows: A Convict's Home; The Wall Worker; Covent Garden Labourers; Halfpenny Ices; Black Jack; The Cheap Fish of St. Giles; Cast-iron Billy; Worker's on the "Silent Highway"; The Street Fruit Trade; The London Boardmen; The Water-cart; "Mush-Fakers" and Ginger-Beer Makers; November Effigies; "Hookey Alf" of Whitechapel; The Crawlers; Italian Street Musicians; The Street Locksmith; The Seller of Shell-fish; Flying Dustmen; Old Furniture; The Independent Shoeblack. The taxonomic approach taken by Thomson to his work can almost be considered scientific: like an anthropologist, he was concerned to classify and accurately capture what he referred to as "the true types of the London poor". Smith (Headingley), with his evocative contextual essays based on interviews with the subjects, brought the element of reformist zeal to the equation. "A pioneering work of social documentation in photographs and words . one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history." (Parr & Badger, Thephotobook: a history, I, 48).…