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Summary:

Review: "In Rediscovering Jacob Riis Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom offer a fresh look at the Progressive-era social reformer, journalist, and pioneer photographer who publicized the conditions of the desperately poor in turn-of-the century New York. Drawing on a wide range of archival, photographic, and manuscript sources, the book reassesses Jacob Riis's career and influence as a crusader for improved housing, as a prototypical muckraking journalist, and as a precursor of documentary photography. Czitrom explores Riis's reporting and activism within the gritty specifics of Gilded Age New York: its new immigrants, its political machines, its fiercely competitive journalism, its evangelical reformers, and its labor movement. Yochelson presents the first thorough study of Riis's photographs, reevaluating Riis's significance at a critical juncture in the history of photography."--Jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Jacob Riis's New York / Daniel Czitrom
• Jacob A. Riis, photographer "after a fashion" / Bonnie Yochelson.

Author/Creator:

Yochelson, Bonnie

Contributors:

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

Czitrom, Daniel J., 1951-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Rediscovering Jacob Riis: exposure journalism and photography in turn-of-the-century New York [by Yochelson, B.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Rediscovering Jacob Riis [by Yochelson, B.] (New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007)

Subjects:

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

Documentary photography — New York (State) — New York — History — 19th century

Crime and the press — New York (State) — New York — History — 19th century

Documentary photography — United States — History — 19th century

New York (N.Y.) — Social life and customs — 19th century — Pictorial works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-252) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

TR820.5 .Y645 2007

ISBNs:

9780226183053 (electronic bk.)
022618305X (electronic bk.)
9781595581990 [Invalid]
1595581995 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1053395966

Other Control Numbers:

796761 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11849360