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Jacob August Riis ( / riːs / REESS; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. [1]
May 22, 2024 · Jacob Riis (1849–1914) was an American reporter, social reformer, and photographer. His book How the Other Half Lives (1890) shocked readers with his descriptions of slum conditions in New York City, and it was an important predecessor to the muckraking journalism that gained popularity in the U.S. after 1900.
Jan 15, 2015 · Jacob Riis was a photographer and writer whose book 'How the Other Half Lives' led to a revolution in social reform.
Jacob Riis’s 1901 autobiography, The Making of an American regaled readers with accounts of the degrading experiences of his early years as a struggling immigrant through his astounding rise as a celebrated writer and confidant of the president of the United States—a story he used to promote his reform causes. In his later years, Riis ...
6 days ago · June 22, 2024. Authorities on Saturday afternoon suspended their search for two teenagers who were reported missing in the waters off Jacob Riis Park in Queens, a shoreline notorious for rip ...
May 27, 2014 · How innovations in photography helped this 19th century journalist improve life for many of his fellow immigrants.
Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914) was a journalist and social reformer who publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the late nineteenth century.
As the author of How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis’s accomplishments span from progressive era muckraking to photography as social documentation.
Jacob Riis, himself once homeless as a young man new to the United States, wrote sympathetic vignettes about those who fell on hard times and became homeless—often due to the loss of a job or an injury or, because they were evicted from their tenement homes when they could not afford escalating rents.
Jun 30, 2008 · Through photos and writings documenting poverty in New York City in the late 19th century, a Danish immigrant became a famous campaigner against slum housing. Two new books tell the story of...
