CDROM VERSION ABBOTT ANSEL ADAMS ROBERT ADAMS ALVAREZ BRAVO ARBUS ATGET BELLOCQ BLOSSFELDT BOURKE-WHITE BRANDT BRASSA CALLAHAN CAMERON COBURN CUNNINGHAM DeCARAVA DOISNEAU EGGLESTON EVANS FRIEDLANDER GILPIN GUTMANN HINE KERTESZ KLEIN KOUDELKA LANGE LARTIGUE LAUGHLIN LEVITT MAPPLETHORPE MODEL MODOTTI MUYBRIDGE NADAR NEWMAN O'SULLIVAN OUTERBRIDGE RIIS RODCHENKO SALGADO SHERMAN SHORE SMITH SOMMER ...

HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES The Hypertext Edition STUDIES AMONG THE TENEMENTS OF NEW YORK BY JACOB A. RIIS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS CHIEFLY FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR Contents NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1890 ...

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Jacob Riis, Richmond Hill resident while writing and photographing his life and times for social change in New York City ...

JACOB RIIS: REFORMER AND PHOTOGRAPHER Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States from Denmark in 1870. After years of extreme poverty and hardship he finally found employment as a police reporter for the New York Tribune in 1877. In the 1880s his work gravitated towards reform and he worked with other New York reformers then crusading for better living conditions for the thousands of immigrants ...

Popular history of photography. Home Message Boards Old Photo Album Learning (future) Search Bookstore Jacob Riis Jacob Riis was a pioneer in using photography to promote the cause of social justice. Riis's How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890, was a remarkable study of the deplorable living conditions endured by the poor in New York City. His images, accompanied by his reporting, had an ...

CDROM VERSION ABBOTT ANSEL ADAMS ROBERT ADAMS ALVAREZ BRAVO ARBUS ATGET BELLOCQ BLOSSFELDT BOURKE-WHITE BRANDT BRASSA CALLAHAN CAMERON COBURN CUNNINGHAM DeCARAVA DOISNEAU EGGLESTON EVANS FRIEDLANDER GILPIN GUTMANN HINE KERTESZ KLEIN KOUDELKA LANGE LARTIGUE LAUGHLIN LEVITT MAPPLETHORPE MODEL MODOTTI MUYBRIDGE NADAR NEWMAN O'SULLIVAN OUTERBRIDGE RIIS RODCHENKO SALGADO SHERMAN SHORE SMITH SOMMER ...

Welcome! June 9, 1997 LIFE Hero of the Week Profile JACOB A. RIIS Muckraker Dear readers, It was early in the month of June one hundred and twenty-seven years ago when a young man from Denmark stepped off the steamer Iowa and made his way into a growing immigrant population he would change forever. Life in the tenements of New York's Lower East Side has never been easy; in the years preceeding ...