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'''Jacob Riis''' (1849-1914) was an [[America|American]] [[journalism|journalist]] and [[photography|photographer]].  Although associated with the "[[muckracker]]" brand of journalism, Riis devoted a good deal of his life to chronicling the lives of those less fortunate, especially in [[New York]] city. Riis compiled his photographs in his seminal work, ''How the Other Half Lives'', a testament to the poverty of the [[lower east side]] of New York in the 1800s.  The title was intended as a call to arms, to remind more fortunate Americans of the elite status they enjoyed, and to foster [[social consciousness]] and [[charity]].

'''Jacob Riis''' (1849-1914) was an [[America|American]] [[journalism|journalist]], [[photography|photographer]], and advocate for the [[Social Gospel]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dy1MNv8ou-0C&pg=PA215|title=Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics, Volume 2|date=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|location=Phoenix, Arizona|isbn=978-1573561303|pages=215}}</ref> Although associated with the "[[muckraker]]" brand of journalism, Riis devoted a good deal of his life to chronicling the lives of those less fortunate, especially in [[New York]] city.

 

Riis compiled his photographs in his seminal work, ''How the Other Half Lives'', a testament to the poverty of the [[lower east side]] of New York in the 1800s.  The title was intended as a call to arms, to remind more fortunate Americans of the elite status they enjoyed, and to foster [[social consciousness]] and [[charity]].

Riis' subjects are immortalized in the "Jacob Riis Houses," near [[Alphabet City]], a neighborhood in the lower east side which, while in the process of [[gentrification]], is still characterized by some [[poverty]].

Riis' subjects are immortalized in the "Jacob Riis Houses," near [[Alphabet City]], a neighborhood in the lower east side which, while in the process of [[gentrification]], is still characterized by some [[poverty]].

==See Also==

==Politics==

*''How the Other Half Lives'', available [http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html here].

 

 

==External Links==

* [http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html ''How the Other Half Lives''].

 

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