Chicago's Nelson Algren
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $13.99
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Shut up and let the pictures talk,
Nelson Algren was a minor writer who wrote one great book-"The Man With The Golden Arm."If he would have stayed home and wrote instead of trying to be a beatnik poster boy, he might have really had a great career like his nemesis, Saul Below.
Art Shay may or may not be a great photographer;I'm not qualified to judge.But he is a bore and a name dropper as a writer. This very poorly written and organized book was obviously produced as something to sell at the retrospective of his work presented at The Chicago History Museum.It's a disappointing mess.