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Riis, Jacob .En gruppe menn i "Bandit`s Roost". Lower East Side, New York. Fra publikasjon: Photographer and Citizen, Alland 1974.Positivkopi gelatin, barytt.NMFF.002173

Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American journalist and documentary photographer and 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. Jacob A. Riis arrived in New York in 1870. As the economy slowed, the Danish-American photographer found himself among the many other immigrants in the area whose daily life consisted of joblessness, hunger, homelessness, and thoughts of suicide. So when he finally found work as a police reporter in 1877, he made it his mission to reveal the crime and poverty of New York City’s East Side slum district to the world. While living in New York, Riis experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums. He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes. His book, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, was published in 1890, and is still considered “a landmark in the annals of social reform.”

Jacob August Riis (1849–1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century. Riis exposed the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the late nineteenth century. Riis and this circle of municipal citizen-reformers, which included social welfare activists Josephine Shaw Lowell and Lillian Wald, worked to gather statistical evidence and raise public awareness. They advocated for new housing designs to ease crowding and improve fire safety, sanitation, and access to air and light. Riis was among the first in the United States to use photographic images as instruments for social change; he was also among the first to use flash powder to photograph interior views and his book How the Other Half Lives was one of the earliest to employ halftone reproduction successfully.

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