<DIV><p>They met in 1949 when Art Shay was a reporter for <I>Life. </I>Shay followed Nelson Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. <I>Life </I>didn&rsquo;t pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay&rsquo;s camera entrance into the back-alley world of Division Street, and Shay captured Algren&rsquo;s poetry on film. They were masters chronicling the same patch of ground with different tools.<I></I></p><p> <I>Chicago&rsquo;s Nelson Algren </I>is the compilation of hundreds of photos&mdash;many recently discovered and published here for the first time&mdash;of Nelson Algren over the course of a decade and a deeply moving homage to the writer and his city.</p><p>Read Algren and you&rsquo;ll see Shay&rsquo;s pictures; look at Shay&rsquo;s photos and you&rsquo;ll hear Algren&rsquo;s words.</p><p>After flying twenty-nine combat missions in World War II, <B>Art Shay</B> joined <I>Life </I>magazine as a staff reporter, before leaving to become one of America&rsquo;s leading photojournalists. His pictures regularly appeared in <I>TIME, Fortune, </I>the <I>The Saturday Evening Post, Forbes, Business Week, PARADE, The New York Times Magazine, </I>and more than three hundred books.</p></DIV>