Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-Of-The-Century New York

by Daniel Czitrom and Bonnie Yochelson

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 United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, barely surviving on his carpentry skills until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. These early experiences provided Riis with an understanding of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022618286X
• ISBN13: 9780226182865
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 6.4"