It also says something about attitudes towards photography, Moore points out, a willingness or indifference about being photographed. “It’s a noble thing, to give your likeness to a photographer, so that they can record life in a city,” says Moore. Now one of the assumptions is that you’re not just being photographed, your image is being contributed to a digital sphere.” Moore points out you can look from this image right back to the start of the show, and the equally busy boat in The Steerage. “You get this very distilled idea of the American city having changed a great deal, but in some ways not at all.”