Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fascinating Pictures here: http://petapixel.com/2013/06/16/how-the-other-half-lives-photographs-of-nycs-underbelly-in-the-1890s/ Shorter_url<http://petapixel.com/2013/06/16/how-the-other-half-lives-photographs-of-nycs-underbelly-in-the-1890s/> Jacob A. Riis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_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. The resulting book, *How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York<http://journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/portfolio/books/book287.html> *, was published in 1890, and is still considered ?a landmark in the annals of social reform.? Filled with pictures, sketches and graphic descriptions of the un-imaginable living conditions he found, the book forced the topic of tenement reform to the forefront of every New Yorker?s attention. -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA