John Thomson & Adolphe Smith | Street Life in LondonFirst published in 1877, Street Life in London is widely regarded as one of the most significant and far reaching photobooks ever produced a ground breaking work which combines documentary photography, oral history and analysis to confront the realities of urban poverty in Britain. This new edition presents John Thomsons exceptional images in all their original detail and richness, alongside the full original text and a new introduction. The authors'

letting the children look at your camera with their dirty

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Center for the Preservation of the Political Memory

- Peter Whitehouse

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perceptive and authoritative

This is a challenging volume of international essays outlining radical museum practice – commoning – whereby entrenched top-down power hierarchies and disabling cultural politics are broken in progressing sustainable relationships with diverse audiences

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the moving-image and cinema

These texts take us on a fascinating journey into the studios of some of the leading nineteenth-century European photographers

as well as their material culture

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