Edwin C. Hirschoff, an ad man and an amateur photographer, was drawn to skid row’s quaint and shabby buildings, and its warm camaraderie. For a time, he kept his offices in the neighborhood. With a large-format camera, he shot hundreds of photographs of skid row in the early 1960s. He captured the neighborhood in its last days, as the wrecking crews attacked each building one by one. Scattered, lost, and ignored for forty years, Down & Out collects Hirschoff’s skid row photographs for the first time.