How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York - Softcover

Buch 30 von 36: Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback)

Riis, Jacob A.

 
9781420925036: How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1420925032 ISBN 13: 9781420925036
Verlag: Digireads.com, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure. Riis, who as an immigrant himself lived in these tenements on the lower east side of Manhattan, exposed the horrible conditions while working as a reporter for the New York Tribune. This book when first published in 1890 shed a much-needed light on the conditions of the poor. Presented here is a reproduction of that original 1890 edition with the numerous illustrations included in that volume.

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Jacob August Riis (1849 - 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.

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Verlag
Digireads.com
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1420925032
ISBN 13 
9781420925036
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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