Early social commentary


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Introduction
1	Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary
Photographers
2	Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor
3	Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow
4	Archibald Burns: Edinburgh
5	John Thomson: Street Life in London
6	Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
7	Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
8	Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America
9	Doris Ulmann: Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933)
Conclusions
10	Thoughts of early social commentary

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Early social commentary

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