"As a body of work, Bronx Boys compares favorably with Bruce Davidson's photographically sophisticated 1970 book East 100th Street and Helen Levitt's work in the 1940s, especially her marvelous 1948 film In the Street." -- John Loengard, photographer and former photo editor for LIFE magazine and one of American Photo magazine's "100 Most Important People in Photography"
Stephen Shames is author of seven previous books, including Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America, which won the Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism, and The Black Panthers. His images are in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography, the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Photographic Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Shames has been profiled by People magazine, CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, Esquire, US News, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Time, and Photo District News. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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