Riis, Jacob. Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. Camera Magazine Spanning nearly five decades of

Spanning nearly five decades of work

Photographers include Alfred Stieglitz (including portrait as youth)

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

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

blurred energy of Venice

Riis, Jacob. Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. Camera Magazine Spanning nearly five decades ofUniversity 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