A State Street Family Album

After years of repeatedly pitching Madison, WI as the best place in the country to live, one has to wonder if Money, and a number of other elite magazines, spent even a fraction of the time on State street that photographer Glenn H. Austin has. Austin's moving and illuminating photo-essay on the homeless culture of the city's most famous street not only shatters illusions and stereotypes about homeless people, but it helps expose the brutality of an unjust system that consistently excludes certain people and leaves them to suffer a chilling fate. Austin offers many instances where the street culture, if allowed to exist in the open, actually develops healthier values and practices than mainstream society. A must-see-and-read, a real lesson in humanity straight from the homeless themselves!