Early photojournalism captures life on the streets of Victorian London

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Early photojournalism captures life on the streets of Victorian London

Early photojournalism captures life on the streets of Victorian London

1877

A beggar paid to look after a baby.

Image: John Thomson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

From 1873 to 1877, Scottish photographer John Thomson collaborated with journalist Adolphe Smith to document the lives of London’s urban poor.

Their project, Street life in London, was released in monthly installments and later as a single volume.

Thomson and Smith combined unposed, documentary images of street vendors, beggars and other workers with interviews, essays and reportage, which explored poverty as a sociological problem to be studied and alleviated

Their project was one of the first examples of socially-concerned documentary photography, and set the tone for concerned photographers of the next century, such as Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine. Read more...

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