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Jacob Riis (1849-1914)

Jacob Riis (1849-1914). COM 241 Photography I. Documentary photos. Reflect a humanitarian point of view Usually focus on people Capture a way of life Realistic Meant to represent fact Accurate and truthful. Jacob Riis. (pronounced reese) “ America ’ s first photojournalist ”

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Jacob Riis (1849-1914)

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  1. Jacob Riis (1849-1914) COM 241 Photography I

  2. Documentary photos • Reflect a humanitarian point of view • Usually focus on people • Capture a way of life • Realistic • Meant to represent fact • Accurate and truthful

  3. Jacob Riis • (pronounced reese) • “America’s first photojournalist” • Born in Denmark, immigrated to U.S. when he was 21 • Lived in one of police-run poor houses in NYC • Eventually got a job as a crime reporter for New York Tribune

  4. Wrote a series of articles on living conditions on Lower East Side of NY • No one took seriously • Decided to document with photographs • One of first photographers to use flash

  5. “How the Other Half Lives” in 1890 • As result of his photos, city closed police-run poor houses

  6. Bottle Alley, Mulberry Road

  7. Jacob Riis Bandit's Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street c. 1888

  8. Jacob Riis Mullen's Alley, Cherry Hill c. 1888

  9. Old house on a Bleecker Street back lot, between Mercer and Greene Street

  10. Typical tenement fire-escape serving as an extension of the flat: Allen Street

  11. Jersey Street tenements

  12. Home of an Italian Rag Picker on Jersey Street. c. 1888

  13. Police station lodgers, West 47 Street, early 1890s

  14. Men's Lodging Room in the West 47th Street Station c. 1892

  15. Police station lodgers waiting to be let out c. 1892

  16. Police station lodgers, Madison Street

  17. Bunks in a sevent-cent lodging-house, Pell Street

  18. Police station lodgers, West 47 Street, early 1890s

  19. "Knee-pants" at forty-five cents a dozen--a Ludlow Street sweater's shop

  20. Twelve-year-old boy (who had sworn he was sixteen) pulling threads in a sweat shop, about 1889

  21. Bohemian cigarmakers at work in their tenement

  22. Girl and a baby on a doorstep

  23. Fighting tuberculosis on the roof.

  24. Bottle Alley, Mulberry Bend

  25. The man slept in this cellar for four years, about 1890

  26. In poverty Gap, West 28 Street: an English coal-heaver's home

  27. Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters [church corner]

  28. Street Arabs in sleeping quarters [areaway, Mulberry St.]

  29. Getting ready for supper in the newsboys' lodging-house

  30. A flat in the pauper barracks, West 38 St., with all its furniture

  31. A blind beggar stands in the middle of a street and begs for someone to buy one of his pencils.

  32. Police Station Lodger, A Plank for a Bed c. 1890

  33. Street Arabs in night quarters

  34. On the roof of the Barracks

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