Jacob A Riis
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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.
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."
Jacob A Riis
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Author : Bonnie Yochelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Jacob A Riis written by Bonnie Yochelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Photography categories.
"Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigration, Riis and his camera captured some of the earliest, most powerful images of American urban poverty"--Jacket.
Jacob A Riis
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Author : Alexander Alland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Jacob A Riis written by Alexander Alland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Riis's images of the slums of New York have influenced every subsequent generation of photographers, while his insightful exploration of the problems of urban life continues to be educational for societies around the world.
Jacob Riis
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Author : Janet B. Pascal
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-12-02
Jacob Riis written by Janet B. Pascal and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-02 with History categories.
Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was born in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of 21. After several years of poverty, he found work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Appalled by the conditions he found there, he began to use the primitive new flash technology to photograph the dark places that had never before been so graphically exposed. The resulting book, How the Other Half Lives, brought to life an entire reform movement. Riis was a staunch ally in the young Theodore Roosevelt's battle to reform the New York police, breaking the brutal system of corruption and graft that had prevented the possibility of any real change in poor neighborhoods. Riis's activism involved him in such vital current controversies as hostility toward immigration, the growing gulf between rich and poor, the relative importance of heredity and environment, the need for adequate public schools, conflicts between social reform and personal freedom, and police brutality. But at the same time, his life raises some thought-provoking moral questions, because his compassion was flawed by an underlying prejudice; his writings are marred by a clear underlying conviction of the superiority of white Protestants, and he speaks with condescension and occasional scorn of other races and religions. He remained an active reformer all his life, founding a settlement house, writing several more books, most notably The Children of the Poor, and maintaining a taxing schedule of lecture tours. This biography includes a picture essay of Riis' photographs as well as, 35 black-and-white illustrations, a chronology, further reading, and an index. Oxford Portraits are informative and insightful biographies of people whose lives shaped their times and continue to influence ours. Based on the most recent scholarship, they draw heavily on primary sources, including writings by and about their subjects. Each book is illustrated with a wealth of photographs, documents, memorabilia, framing the personality and achievements of its subject against the backdrop of history.
The Battle With The Slum
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Author : Jacob A. Riis
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-03-05
The Battle With The Slum written by Jacob A. Riis and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with History categories.
Classic work of reportage documents life of the urban poor at the turn of the century. Real-life tales and rare photographs celebrate efforts to demolish breeding grounds of crime and improve conditions in schools and tenements.
The Other Half
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Author : Tom Buk-Swienty
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2008
The Other Half written by Tom Buk-Swienty and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A portrait of the late-nineteenth-century social reformer draws on previously unexamined diaries and letters to trace his immigration to America, work as a police reporter for the "New York Tribune," and pivotal contributions as a muckraker and progressive.
Jacob A Riis
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Author : Jacob August Riis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Jacob A Riis 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 1974 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Photographs from the Riis family's private collection (later given to the Museum of the City of New York) on the immigrant slums of New York City. Captions come from Riis' own writings. Alland can be credited somewhat for reviving historical interest in Riis' photographs.
Jacob Riis
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Author : Jacob Riis
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Jacob Riis written by Jacob Riis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
Political Manhood
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Author : Kevin P. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-06
Political Manhood written by Kevin P. Murphy and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-06 with History categories.
In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt claimed that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men," warning that "the weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community." A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was "all inner life," whereas his opposite, the "red blood," was a man of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct categories. Because of its similarity to the emergent "homosexual" type, the mollycoddle became a powerful rhetorical figure, often used to marginalize and stigmatize certain political actors. Murphy's history follows the redefinition of manhood across a variety of classes, especially in the work of late nineteenth-century reformers who trumpeted the virility of the laboring classes. Challenging the characterization of the relationship between political "machines" and social and municipal reformers at the turn of the twentieth century, he revolutionizes our understanding of the gendered and sexual meanings attached to political and ideological positions of the Progressive Era.