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

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

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University 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 York’s tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city’s 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 landed a job as a muckraking reporter. These early experiences left Riis with an empathy for the lives of immigrants that would show through in his iconic photos.” (From back cover)

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