John Thompson also took an interest in using photography not to document the war but the effects of the growing industry and how the public became to suffer from the decline of farm demands and other elements of the industrialisation of big cities. He captured the London street crawlers in which he showed not a humane approach but a very cold as his images look as though they are there for the purpose of exposing the poor with no empathetic interest. These images I would say are candid as again the subjects in his images look unaware of their image being taken despite the massive box camera which would have been in front of them. His work was taken from the 1870's-1880's.
Image labelled: in Victorian London two men, 1880s.
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His most famous image is this of a weak woman begging on the streets of London holding her baby. This became the front cover of his published book 'London street callers'.
Photo labelled: street life in London.
Photo credits: www.digitallibary.ise.ac.uk
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