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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

"How the Other Half Lives", Jacob Riis (1849-1914)

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis (1849-1914)

Investigative journalism that documents the deplorable living conditions of New York City’s tenements, driving societal and legislative reform in the late 19th century.

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How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis (1849-1914)

Investigative journalism that documents the deplorable living conditions of New York City’s tenements, driving societal and legislative reform in the late 19th century.

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In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-Fourth St. An English
coal-heaver’s home

Minding the Baby, Cherry Hill

In Sleeping Quarters— Rivington Garbage Dump

Bandit’s Roost,1887–88

‘I Scrubs,’ little Katie from the West 52nd Street Industrial School, 1890–92,

An Old Rear-Tenement in Roosevelt Street

In the home of an Italian rag-picker, Jersey Street

“Knee-Pants” at Forty-Five Cents a Dozen—a Ludlow Street Sweater’s Shop

The backyard of a tenement, where laundry is drying and children and adults are outside, in the Five Points neighborhood, NYC

Street Arabs in Night Quarters

Street Arabs at Night, Mulberry Street

Little Susie in Gotham Court

Bohemian Cigarmakers at work in their Tenement

Pupils in the Essex Market school in a poor quarter of New York

Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street Tenement—‘“Five Cents a Spot”

Baxter Street Alley, rag picker's row

James M’Bride, one of the city’s pensioners

One of four pedlars who slept in the celler of 11 Ludlow Street rear.

A Scrub and her bed—The Plank, 1892

Two boys asleep at 2 a.m. in the press room of the "Sun" newspaper

Mrs. Benoit, a Native American widow, sews and beads while smoking a pipe in her Hudson Street apartment

A young girl holds a baby in a doorway

Police Station Lodgers 11. In Oak Street Station.

Books

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Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York

University of Chicago Press, 2014

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Jacob Riis (55)

Phaidon, 2001

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Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer

Oxford University Press, 2005

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Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen

Aperture, 1993

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Jacob A. Riis n°72

Actes Sud, 1999

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Jacob A. Riis and the American City

Associated Faculty Press, 1974

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Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half: A Complete Catalogue of His Photographs

Yale University Press, 2015

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Jacob A. Riis: Social Reporter with Camera

Lucida Pocket, 1987

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The Making of the Other Half: Jacob A. Riis and the New Image of Tenement Poverty

Aarhus University Press, 2015

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York With Introductory Chapters and a Riis Chronology

Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

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