Riis, Jacob. Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. Camera Magazine several in color by Ivan

several in color by Ivan Dmitri & Alfred Eisenstaedt

Yochelson argues that Riis’s real innovation was not artistic excellence but his ability to harness photography as a tool for social advocacy and public persuasion

Morath captures scenes from cities such as Moscow and Leningrad

blurred energy of Venice

Photographers include Alfred Stieglitz (including portrait as youth)

Riis, Jacob. Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. Camera Magazine several in color by IvanUniversity of Chicago Press, 2014. Wraps, fine, as new. Previously published in 2007. 296 pages. Illustrated. Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New Yorks tenement houses, home to three quarters of the citys population Jacob Riis (1849 1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, barely surviving on his carpentry skills until he