Walkers in the City - 9781501768477

Walkers in the CityJewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York\nAuthor(s): Deborah Dash Moore\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Three Hills\nISBN-13: 9781501768477, 978-1501768477\nSynopsis\nIn the middle of the twentieth century, good cameras became smaller and lighter, enabling street photographers to roam alleyways, ride elevated trains and subways, and stroll beaches in summertime to capture daily life with urgency and intimacy. Walkers in the City showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced with these new cameras on New York City's streets and in public spaces. \n\n Drawing on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League, Deborah Dash Moore offers a new perspective on New York as seen through their eyesa cityscape of working-class people and democratizing public transit. With their cameras, they pictured Go.