Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900 - 1930 by Joseph Heathcott and Angela Dietz
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Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900 - 1930 by Joseph Heathcott and Angela Dietz

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Collected and analyzed here by Joseph Heathcott and Angela Dietz, the compelling images in Capturing the City reveal the national trend among cities to use the camera as a documentary tool. Reformers Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine imagined the camera as a truth-telling instrument and used their photographs to mobilize public consciousness. Across the nation, cities used photographers to document slums, workhouses, and crime scenes, as well as municipal improvements like street lighting, pavement, and model housing. 

Paperback | 312 pages | 280 halftones | 2015