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How The Other Half Lives Studies Among The Tenements Of New York
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Author : Jacob A. Riis
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-06-13
How The Other Half Lives Studies Among The Tenements Of New York written by Jacob A. Riis and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-13 with Fiction categories.
In the 1880s, many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. After the publication of "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York," the question of living conditions became an important societal issue and caused several legislative actions directed toward improving the lives of immigrants.
How The Other Half Lives
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Author : Jacob A. Riis
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2011
How The Other Half Lives written by Jacob A. Riis and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support.
How The Other Half Lives
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Author : Jacob Riis
language : en
Publisher: Applewood Books
Release Date : 2011
How The Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and has been published by Applewood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
How The Other Half Lives
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Author : Jacob A. Riis
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-15
How The Other Half Lives written by Jacob A. Riis and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob RiisÕs pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from RabelaisÕs Pantagruel: ÒOne half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; considering that no one has yet written of that Country.Ó An anatomy of New York CityÕs slums in the 1880s, it vividly brought home to its first readers through the powerful combination of text and images the squalid living conditions of Òthe other half,Ó who might well have inhabited another country. The book pricked the conscience of its readers and raised the tenement into a symbol of intransigent social difference. As Alan Trachtenberg makes clear in his introduction, it is a book that still speaks powerfully to us today of social injustice. Except for the modernization of spelling and punctuation, the John Harvard Library edition of How the Other Half Lives reproduces the text of the first published book version of November 1890. For this edition, prints have been made from RiisÕs original photographs now in the archives of the Museum of the City of New York. Endnotes aid the contemporary reader.
How The Other Half Lives
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Author : Jacob August Riis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
How The Other Half Lives written by Jacob August Riis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with New York (N.Y.) categories.
"43 illustrations with 17 halftones from photographs both full and half page; the remaining are from art copied mainly from photographs. The striking use of photography in the hands of a journalist using hand cameras and flash to light up difficult subjects. Very likely the earliest use of halftone photographs in social commentary. The halftone engravings are of poor quality (approx. 120 LPI) and heavily retouched, no engraving company is credited."--David Hanson documentation.
How The Other Half Lives
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Author : Jacob A. Riis
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Release Date : 2010-09-22
How The Other Half Lives written by Jacob A. Riis and has been published by Macmillan Higher Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-22 with History categories.
Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support.
How The Other Half Lives 1890 By Jacob Riis
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Author : Jacob Riis
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-04-15
How The Other Half Lives 1890 By Jacob Riis written by Jacob Riis and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-15 with categories.
Jacob August Riis ( May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. Additionally, as one of the most famous proponents of the newly practicable casual photography, he is considered one of the fathers of photography due to his very early adoption of flash in photography. While living in New York, Riis experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums. He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes. Early life: Born in Ribe, Denmark, Jacob Riis was the third of the 15 children (one of whom, an orphaned niece, was fostered) of Niels Edward Riis, a schoolteacher and writer for the local Ribe newspaper, and Carolina Riis (née Bendsine Lundholm), a homemaker. Among the 15, only Jacob, one sister, and the foster sister survived into the twentieth century. Riis was influenced by his father, whose school Riis delighted in disrupting. His father persuaded him to read (and improve his English via) Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper. Jacob had a happy childhood, but the experienced tragedy at the age of eleven when his brother Theodore, a year younger, drowned. He never forgot his mother's grief. At age eleven or twelve, he donated all the money he had and gave it to a poor Ribe family living in a squalid house if they cleaned it. The tenants took the money and obliged; when he told his mother, she went to help. Though his father had hoped that Jacob would have a literary career, Jacob wanted to be a carpenter.When he was 16, he became fond of Elisabeth Gjørtz, the 12-year-old adopted daughter of the owner of the company for which he worked as an apprentice carpenter. The father disapproved of the boy's blundering attentions, and Riis was forced to complete his carpentry apprenticeship in Copenhagen. Riis returned to Ribe in 1868 at age 19. Discouraged by poor job availability in the region and Gjørtz's disfavor of his marriage proposal, Riis decided to emigrate to the United States.
How The Other Half Lives 52 Hardcovers
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Author : James Lovegrove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-12-01
How The Other Half Lives 52 Hardcovers written by James Lovegrove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12-01 with Science fiction, English categories.
Rediscovering Jacob Riis
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Author : Bonnie Yochelson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-08-18
Rediscovering Jacob Riis written by Bonnie Yochelson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-18 with History categories.
Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was the author of How the Other Half Lives (1890). This study of his life and work includes excerpts from Riis’s diary, chronicling romance, poverty, temptation, and, after many false starts, employment as a writer and reformer. In the second half, Yochelson describes how Riis used photography to shock and influence his readers. The authors describe Riis’s intellectual education and discuss the influence of How the Other Half Lives on urban history. It shows that Riis argued for charity rather than social justice; but the fact that he understood what it was to be homeless did humanize Riis’s work, and that work has continued to inspire reformers. Yochelson focuses on how Riis came to obtain his now famous images, how they were manipulated for publication, and their influence on the young field of photography.
How The Other Half Lives
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Author : Jacob Riis
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-12-29
How The Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-29 with categories.
"How the Other Half Lives" from Jacob Riis. Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer (1849-1914).