Name: RCC Book Club - "Walkers in the City" by Deborah Dash Moore
Start: 2025-01-23T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-23T21:30:00-05:00

Thanks to those who attended the last book club meeting on Lee Miller that included a bonus discussion on the new movie "Lee" with Kate Winslet playing Miller during her remarkable years spent photographing WWII for Vogue.

The next selection is **"Walkers in the City" by Deborah Dash Moore** published by Cornell University Press. This will be be our first selection covering the topic of street photography with the story of New York's famous Photo League. The book is available online through the publisher, Amazon, and used online bookstores as well a limited supply through the BCCLS. It is filled good images to accompany the text.

**Thank you Elliot for the suggestion!**

**About the book from the publisher:**

\*\*In the middle of the twentieth century, good cameras became smaller and lighter, enabling street photographers to roam alleyways, ride elevated trains and subways, and stroll beaches in summertime to capture daily life with urgency and intimacy.\*\**Walkers in the City* showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced with these new cameras on New York City's streets and in public spaces.

Drawing on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League, Deborah Dash Moore offers a new perspective on New York as seen through their eyes—a cityscape of working-class people and democratizing public transit. With their cameras, they pictured Gotham's abrasive social milieu and its evanescent textures and light, creating an archive of vernacular images of city life and a distinctive tradition of street photography that would be widely imitated.

*Walkers in the City* documents how these roving, imaginative New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life.

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