Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Bonnie Yochelson, Daniel Czitrom

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

Bonnie Yochelson, Daniel Czitrom

296 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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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 Un...

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