Disasters, riots and massacres: early Chicago through the lens of Jun Fujita, the man who shot Al Capone. Fujita was a Japanese immigrant who became a pioneering photojournalist and poet in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, a witness to momentous events whose photographs shaped the way they were recorded; he used photography to humanise inhumanity and to make legendary figures more life-sized. Despite his ethnic background and limited English he became a celebrated, somewhat swashbuckling member of the staunchly segregated city's society, counting everyone from Carl Sandburg to Al Capone as friends, yet he had to fight to avoid internment during World War II. The book features his most famous photojournalism and his personal photography, including the Eastland disaster in the Chicago River, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the 1919 Chicago race riots, commercial studio photography and pioneering colour wildflower studies. It began with two green metal drawers of Fujita's personal negatives kept by his great-nephew Graham Lee, who spent fifteen years researching his life, and it also covers his poetry, notably Tanka: Poems in Exile, considered the first American collection of Japanese tanka.