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According to Wikipedia: "Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), was a Danish American social reformer, muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for … Mehr…

According to Wikipedia: "Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), was a Danish American social reformer, muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He helped with the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. As one of the According to Wikipedia: "Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), was a Danish American social reformer, muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He helped with the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. As one of the most prominent exponents of the newly practicable flash, he is considered a pioneer in photography. An eighteen-page article by Riis, How the Other Half Lives, appeared in the Christmas 1889 edition of Scribner's Magazine. It included nineteen of his photographs, rendered as line drawings. Its publication brought an invitation to expand the material into an entire book. Riis had already been thinking of writing a book, and went straight to work on it, during nights. (Days were for reporting for the New York Sun, evenings for public speaking.) How the Other Half Lives, subtitled "Studies among the Tenements of New York", was published in 1890, a powerfully written book that reused the eighteen line drawings that had appeared in the Scribner's article but also seventeen reproductions in halftone, and thus "[representing] the first extensive use of halftone photographic reproductions in a book EBooks, Books~~Social Sciences~~Sociology - General, Children-of-the-Old-Testament~~Jacob-A-Riis, , , , , , , , , , B & R Samizdat Express<