Aeon, the digital magazine, has just published online a fascinating essay on slum photography which was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty, and was also a weapon against the working class poor. It is written by Sadie Levy Gale a PhD candidate in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, Wales. The paper mainly uses examples from London.
See: https://aeon.co/essays/slum-photos-were-weaponised-against-the-people-they-depictpublishes
Image: Southwark slum, London Metropolitan Archives
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