Author: Jacob RiisPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 145850042X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Author: Jacob August RiisHow the Other Half Lives
Author: Jacob RiisPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486129926
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.
How the Other Half Lives
Author: Jacob A. RiisPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312574010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support.
The Other Half
Author: Tom Buk-SwientyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393060232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A portrait of the late-nineteenth-century social reformer draws on previously unexamined diaries and letters to trace his immigration to America, work as a police reporter for the "New York Tribune," and pivotal contributions as a muckraker and progressive.
Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Author: Bonnie YochelsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022618286X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was the author of How the Other Half Lives (1890). This study of his life and work includes excerpts from Riis s diary, chronicling romance, poverty, temptation, and, after many false starts, employment as a writer and reformer. In the second half, Yochelson describes how Riis used photography to shock and influence his readers. The authors describe Riis s intellectual education and discuss the influence of How the Other Half Lives on urban history. It shows that Riis argued for charity rather than social justice; but the fact that he understood what it was to be homeless did humanize Riis s work, and that work has continued to inspire reformers. Yochelson focuses on how Riis came to obtain his now famous images, how they were manipulated for publication, and their influence on the young field of photography."
The Making of an American
Author: Jacob A. RiisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387049730
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Sasha AbramskyJacob A. Riis
Author: Bonnie YochelsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300209167
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigration, Riis and his camera captured some of the earliest, most powerful images of American urban poverty"--Jacket.
Author: Jacob August Riis