. . "Chicago's Nelson Algren"@en . "Chicago's Nelson Algren" . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Pictorial works"@en . . "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 didn't pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay's camera entrance into the back-alley world of Division Street, and Shay captured Algren's poetry on film. They were masters chronicling the same patch of ground with different tools. Chicago's Nelson Algren is the compilation of hundreds of photosmany recently discovered and published here for the first timeof Nelson Algren over the c."@en . "Pictorial works" . . . "HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General" . . "HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)" . . "History." . . "Manners and customs." . . "Illinois" . . "PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits." . . "Photograph collections." . . . . "Chicago (Ill.)" . . "Slum." . .