How the Other Half Lives
Author: Jacob Riis
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 145850042X
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Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Author: Bonnie Yochelson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-08-18
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 022618286X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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."
Jacob A. Riis
Author: Bonnie Yochelson
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300209167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
Jacob Riis's Camera
Author: Alexis O'Neill
Publisher: Thinkingdom
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1635923654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This revealing biography of a pioneering photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis shows how he brought to light one of the worst social justice issues plaguing New York City in the late 1800s--the tenement housing crisis--using newly invented flash photography. Jacob Riis was familiar with poverty. He did his best to combat it in his hometown of Ribe, Denmark, and he experienced it when he immigrated to the United States in 1870. Jobs for immigrants were hard to get and keep, and Jacob often found himself penniless, sleeping on the streets or in filthy homeless shelters. When he became a journalist, Jacob couldn't stop seeing the poverty in the city around him. He began to photograph overcrowded tenement buildings and their impoverished residents, using newly developed flash powder to illuminate the constantly dark rooms to expose the unacceptable conditions. His photographs inspired the people of New York to take action. Gary Kelley's detailed illustrations perfectly accompany Alexis O'Neill's engaging text in this STEAM title for young readers.
The Making of an American
Author: Jacob August Riis
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 1901
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In all of which I have made no account of a factor which is at the bottom of half our troubles with our immigrant population, so far as they are not of our own making: the loss of reckoning that follows uprooting; the cutting loose from all sense of responsibility, with the old standards gone, that makes the politician's job so profitable in our large cities, and that of the patriot and the housekeeper so wearisome. We all know the process. The immigrant has no patent on it. It afflicts the native, too, when he goes to a town where he is not known.
Jacob A. Riis
Author: Alexander Alland
Publisher:
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780893815271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Riis's images of the slums of New York have influenced every subsequent generation of photographers, while his insightful exploration of the problems of urban life continues to be educational for societies around the world.
The Other Half
Author: Tom Buk-Swienty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780393060232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Children of the Poor
Author: Jacob August Riis
Publisher:
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jacob Riis was a Danish-born photojournalist who used his camera to draw attention to the plight of the poor.
Children of the Tenements (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
Author: Jacob A. Riis
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Children of the Tenements is a collection of stories and tales about orphans and poor children living in the slums of New York City. It provides an interesting insight into city life at the turn of the century and shows how the spirit of Christmas can make an impact even on the most unfortunate ones.
The Battle with the Slum
Author: Jacob August Riis
Publisher: Ferguson Publishing Company
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13:
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