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How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis (1971, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486220125

ISBN-139780486220123

eBay Product ID (ePID)113720

Product Key Features

Book TitleHow the Other Half Lives

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1971

TopicPoverty & Homelessness, History, United States / General, Sociology / Urban, Jewish

IllustratorYes

FeaturesNew Edition

GenreSocial Science, Photography, History

AuthorJacob A. Riis

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight21.7 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width10 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN75-121585

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal305.5/69097471

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisJacob 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 NumberHV4046.N6R