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Rediscovering Jacob Riis - Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Paperback)
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Rediscovering Jacob Riis - Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Paperback)
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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.
With "Rediscovering Jacob Riis," art historian Bonnie Yochelson
and historian Daniel Czitrom place Jacob Riis's images in
historical context even as they expose a clear sightline to the
present. In the first half of their book, Czitrom explores Riis's
reporting and activism within the gritty specifics of Gilded Age
New York: its new immigrants, its political machines, its fiercely
competitive journalism, its evangelical reformers, and its labor
movement. In delving into Riis's intellectual education and the
lasting impact of "How the Other Half Lives," Czitrom shows that
though Riis argued for charity, not sociopolitical justice, the
empathy that drove his work continues to inspire urban reformers
today.
In the second half of the book, Yochelson describes for the first
time Riis's photographic practice: his initial reliance on amateur
photographers to take the photographs he needed, his own use of the
camera, and then his collecting of photographs by professionals,
who by 1900 were documenting social reform efforts for government
agencies and charities. She argues that while Riis is rightly
considered a revolutionary in the history of photography, he was
not a photographic artist. Instead, Riis was a writer and lecturer
who first harnessed the power of photography to affect social
change.
As staggering inequality continues to be an urgent political
topic, this book, illustrated with nearly seventy of Riis's
photographs, will serve as a stunning reminder of what has changed,
and what has not.
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