How the Other Side Lives + The Battle With the Slum - Jacob Riis

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How the Other Half Lives
Studies Among the Tenements of New York
By Jacob Riis, 1932 edition
304 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable
-Bonus -
The Battle With the Slum
By Jacob Riis, 1932
504 pages, indexed, searchable
-Bonus -
Children of The Poor
By Jacob Riis, 1892
300 pages, Illustrated, indexed, searchable
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This offer is for a Digital EBook
CD
which includes the original photos from the 1890 edition.
Plus two additional related books.
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August Riis 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. 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.
An eighteen-page article by Riis, How the Other Half Lives, appeared in the Christmas 1889 edition of Scribner's Magazine. It included nineteen of his photographs rendered as line drawings. Its publication brought an invitation to expand the material into an entire book.
Riis had already been thinking of writing a book, and began writing it during nights. How the Other Half Lives, subtitled "Studies Among the Tenements of New York", was published in 1890. The book reused the eighteen line drawings that had appeared in the Scribner's article and also seventeen reproductions using the halftone method, and thus “representing the first extensive use of halftone photographic reproductions in a book".
How the Other Half Lives sold well and was much quoted. Reviews were generally good, although some reviewers criticized it for oversimplifying and exaggerating. Riis attributed the success to a popular interest in social amelioration stimulated by William Booth's In Darkest England and the Way Out, and also to Ward McAllister's Society as I Have Found It, a portrait of the moneyed class. The book encouraged imitations such as Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (1892), which somehow appropriated Riis's own photographs.
Children of the Poor (1892) was a sequel in which Riis wrote of particular children that he had encountered.
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