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New page: {{photography}} '''Jacob Riis''' (1849-1914) was an American journalist and photographer. Although associated with the "muckracker" brand of...
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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]].
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==
*''How the Other Half Lives'', available [http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html here].
[[category:photography]]
'''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]].
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==
*''How the Other Half Lives'', available [http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html here].
[[category:photography]]