They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn't pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay's camera entrance into the back-alley world of Division Street, and Shay captured Algren's poetry on film. They were masters chronicling the same patch of ground with different tools. Chicago's Nelson Algren is the compilation of hundreds of photos-many recently discovered and published here for the first time-of Nelson Algren over the course of a decade and a deeply moving homage to the writer and his city. Read Algren and you'll see Shay's pictures; look at Shay's photos and you'll hear Nelson's words.
By:
Art Shay Photographs by:
Art Shay Foreword by:
David Mamet Imprint: Seven Stories Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 203mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 452g ISBN:9781583227640 ISBN 10: 1583227644 Pages: 160 Publication Date:01 August 2011 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for Chicago's Nelson Algren: Photographs by Art Shay
Art Shay is an American original whose photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head, then kicks you in the ass. -Roger Ebert