Jacob Riis - International Center of Photography While working as a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he did a series of exposés on slum conditions in a series of tenement photographs on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which led him to view photography as a way of communicating the need for slum reform to the public
How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) Using flash photography—a novel technique of the time—he captured the dimly lit interiors of overcrowded tenements, sweatshops, and alleyways These stark black-and-white images revealed the raw details of lives lived in deprivation, complemented by Riis’s poignant prose
How the Other Half Lived: Photographs of Jacob Riis “Shoemaker Working in a house in the Yard of 219 Broome Street, Which the Landlord Built When the Sanitary Police Put him out of the Basement Clatterpol Sticks Up Through his House Rent $ 12 a Month ” Via Preus Museum In Poverty Gap, an English Coal-Heaver`s Home Via Preus Museum
Haunting Photos Capture the Life Inside the Squalid New York’s . . . His pictures of the squalid lives of New York’s immigrants made him the most famous photographer of his day and were credited with bringing reforms which offered some hope to the booming city’s poorest residents
Jacob August Riis. Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents . . . - MoMA He began documenting the deplorable living conditions there, producing photographs like Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot In this image, he captures tenement dwellers in a candid moment, highlighting their overcrowded, dirty, and dangerously dilapidated surroundings
Jacob Riis How The Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis Photographs) In 1890, Riis compiled his photographs into a book, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Featuring never-before-seen photos supplemented by blunt and unsettling descriptions, the treatise opened New Yorkers' eyes with raw depictions of urban slums
Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives A photo of a family living in their one room apartment can be seen below Riis began his mission by photographing the terrible conditions these people were subjected to These photographs provided the visuals for his lecture series, "The Other Half: How it Lives and Dies in New York "
Riis, Jacob (1849-1914) - Flickr He uses his pictures in lectures given across the United States until he dies and as illustrations in books like "How the Other Half Lives, Studies among the Tenements of New York" 1890 and "The Children of the Poor" 1892 Between 1890 and 1924 24 million people emigrate to America via New York