How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis (1971, Paperback, New Edition)
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780486220123
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486220125
ISBN-13
9780486220123
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113720
Product Key Features
Book Title
How the Other Half Lives
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1971
Topic
Poverty & Homelessness, History, United States / General, Sociology / Urban, Jewish
Illustrator
Yes
Features
New Edition
Genre
Social Science, Photography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
10 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
75-121585
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
305.5/69097471
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed the shameful conditions of life with which he was all too familiar. Today, he is best remembered as a compassionate and effective reformer and as a pioneer photo-journalist. In How the Other Half Lives, New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor. Riis originally documented all his studies with photographs. However, since the half-tone technique of photo reproduction had not been perfected, the original edition included mainly reductions in sketch-form of Riis' photographs. These could not begin to capture what Riis' sensitive camera caught on film. The anguish and the apathy, the toughness and the humiliation of the anonymous faces is all but obliterated in the sketches. This Dover edition includes fully 100 photographs, many famous, and many less familiar, from the Riis collection of the City Museum, and their inclusion here creates a closer conformity to Riis' intentions than did the original edition., This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man's struggle to survive., This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the 20th century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.
LC Classification Number
HV4046.N6R
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