Bronx Boys: A Digital Monograph by Stephen Shames

What started out for Stephen Shames as an assignment for Look magazine back in 1977 turned into an epic twenty two year project documenting the lives of young boys in the Bronx, New York. He was assigned by former Look editor John Durniak to simply do an essay on the Bronx. Shames says: “On the first day I got the picture ‘Ralph Jumps,’  which is one of my favorite pictures I ever took, and so I guess I was hooked.