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Bonnie Yochelson, "Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York"
English | ISBN: 022618286X | 2014 | 296 pages | EPUB | 30 MB
Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives―a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York's tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city's population―Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, barely surviving on his carpentry skills until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. These early experiences provided Riis with an understanding of what it was like to be poor in the immigrant communities that populated New York's slums, and it was this empathy that would shine through in his iconic photos.
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