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Journalism History, 2018
Jacob A. Riis, a Danish carpenter turned journalist and social reformer, has cemented his name in American history with his written and photographed documentation of the ailments of New York's tene...
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Jacob A. Riis, a Danish carpenter turned journalist and social reformer, has cemented his name in American history with his written and photographed documentation of the ailments of New York's tene...
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JACOB RIIS: CITIZENSHIP AND ART
Canadian Review of American Studies, 1991The art of the city is an art of juxtaposition and incongruity. The variegated spectacle of its street life is translated into paint or ink. Its polyglot babble excites or confuses the listener. The city's varying classes and social groups are set in conflict. Its dreams are turned against its actualities. The artist responds to the city's incongruity
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Jacob Riis: “Bayard Street Tenement” Photograph
2022As photography technology and techniques evolved in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, photographs became an increasingly important way to disseminate information, reflecting the advertising dictum coined later that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” While technology had yet to evolve to allow quality mass reproduction of photographic ...
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JACOB A. RIIS ON CHILDREN LIVING IN TENEMENTS (1892)
Pediatrics, 1974Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914), a Danish-American journalist and social reformer, shocked the American conscience in his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), by his exposé of the horrors of New York City slums and the abuses of lower-class urban life. The following quotation from his book, The Children of the Poor (1892) unfortunately is still applicable ...
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Jacob Riis: Immigrants Old and New, and the Making of Americans
American Journalism, 2003Abstract Jacob A. Riis, the immigrant journalist, pioneering photographer, and author of the classic How the Other Half Lives, traditionally has been seen as a progressive social reformer who, despite his obvious sympathy far the “other half,” did not always rise above the racial and ethnic stereotyping prevalent during the late nineteenth century ...
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