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"there are many such images of the ghetto dating from this era, just as well composed as this. What makes this image unique is it's refusal to fetishize it's subject matter. Rather than titilating the photographers well-to-do patrons with an insight into a social demographic that was otherwise too dangerous and sordid to engage with; the photographer presents his audience with their own psychological reaction to the poor of their cities: they're hazards to be quickly walked passed, with whom to avoid eye contact at all costs. Faceless, inhuman and threatening. fapfapfap..."
1)Give a contextual background to the photograph. Talk about the photographer, the social epoch (industrialisation), & the photographic tradition it was engaging with (social documentary). 2) explain how it avoids the risk of fetishising the poor by smudging out their faces. 3) #### 4) Profit!
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