Rediscovering Jacob Riis - Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-Of-The-Century New York

Before publishing his book How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the US as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. This book places Jacob Riis' images in historical context. It explores Riis' reporting and activism within the gritty specifics of Gilded Age New York.

About the author

Bonnie Yochelson was curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York and teaches in the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. She is the author, most recently, of Alfred Stieglitz New York. Daniel Czitrom is professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, the author of Media and the American Mind, and coauthor of Out of Many.

Summary

Before publishing his book How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the US as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. This book places Jacob Riis' images in historical context. It explores Riis' reporting and activism within the gritty specifics of Gilded Age New York.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Czitrom, Daniel Yochelson Czitrom, Czitrom Daniel, Bonnie Yochelson, Bonnie Czitrom Yochelson, Yochelson Bonnie
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2014
• EAN: 9780226182865
• ISBN: 978-0-226-18286-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; New York, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Press & journalism, Individual photographers, News media and journalism, Biography: historical, political and military, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Photographic reportage, Photojournalism and documentary photography