Chicago's Nelson Algren

Chicago's Nelson Algren by Shay, Art. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781583227640.

Foreword by David Mamet They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didnt pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shays camera entrance into the back-alley world of Division Street, and Shay captured Algrens poetry on film. They were masters chronicling the same patch of ground with different tools. Chicagos Nelson Algren is the compilation of hundreds of photos—many recently discov ered and published here for the first time—of Nelson Algren over the course of a decade and a deeply moving homage to the writer and his city. Read Algren and youll see Shays pictures; look at Shays photos and youll hear Nelsons words.