Jacob Riis's Camera

Jacob Riis's Camera

Author: Alexis O'Neill

Publisher: Thinkingdom

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1635923654

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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.


Rediscovering Jacob Riis

Rediscovering Jacob Riis

Author: Bonnie Yochelson

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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More than 90 years after his death Jacob Riis is still considered a pioneering photographer. He was the first to document the New York slums, publicising in haunting photographs the plight of the urban poor at the height of European immigration to the city. But Riis always maintained that he 'was no good at all as a photographer' and in recent years has been disparaged for racist views and political opportunitism. Here, the complex legacy of Jacob Riis is explored and explained. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout.


Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis

Author: Janet B. Pascal

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-12-02

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0195145275

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Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was born in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of 21. After several years of poverty, he found work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Appalled by the conditions he found there, he began to use the primitive new flash technology to photograph the dark places that had never before been so graphically exposed. The resulting book, How the Other Half Lives, brought to life an entire reform movement. Riis was a staunch ally in the young Theodore Roosevelt's battle to reform the New York police, breaking the brutal system of corruption and graft that had prevented the possibility of any real change in poor neighborhoods. Riis's activism involved him in such vital current controversies as hostility toward immigration, the growing gulf between rich and poor, the relative importance of heredity and environment, the need for adequate public schools, conflicts between social reform and personal freedom, and police brutality. But at the same time, his life raises some thought-provoking moral questions, because his compassion was flawed by an underlying prejudice; his writings are marred by a clear underlying conviction of the superiority of white Protestants, and he speaks with condescension and occasional scorn of other races and religions. He remained an active reformer all his life, founding a settlement house, writing several more books, most notably The Children of the Poor, and maintaining a taxing schedule of lecture tours. This biography includes a picture essay of Riis' photographs as well as, 35 black-and-white illustrations, a chronology, further reading, and an index. Oxford Portraits are informative and insightful biographies of people whose lives shaped their times and continue to influence ours. Based on the most recent scholarship, they draw heavily on primary sources, including writings by and about their subjects. Each book is illustrated with a wealth of photographs, documents, memorabilia, framing the personality and achievements of its subject against the backdrop of history.


The Making of an American

The Making of an American

Author: Jacob A. Riis

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-14

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 3387049730

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.


The Children of the Poor

The Children of the Poor

Author: Jacob August Riis

Publisher:

Published: 1892

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13:

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Jacob Riis was a Danish-born photojournalist who used his camera to draw attention to the plight of the poor.


Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis

Author: Bonnie Yochelson

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300209167

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"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.


The Other Half

The Other Half

Author: Tom Buk-Swienty

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780393060232

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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.


Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis

Author: Alexander Alland

Publisher:

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780893815271

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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 Battle with the Slum

The Battle with the Slum

Author: Jacob A. Riis

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0486157067

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Classic work of reportage documents life of the urban poor at the turn of the century. Real-life tales and rare photographs celebrate efforts to demolish breeding grounds of crime and improve conditions in schools and tenements.