Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Book Summary
Profiles the late-nineteenth-century photographer most remembered for his depictions of New York's urban poor at the height of European immigration, in a visual study that evaluates his work as a proponent of social reform.
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