Riis, Jacob. Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. Camera Magazine Crown & Camera: The Royal

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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

showing how photographic "truth" competed with and informed painting and sculpture

in original shrink wrap

several in color by Ivan Dmitri & Alfred Eisenstaedt

Riis, Jacob. Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. Camera Magazine Crown & Camera: The RoyalUniversity 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