Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
by
Bonnie Yochelson, Daniel Czitrom
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives—a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York’s tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city’s population—Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer,...