Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914)
Autor(a) de How the Other Half Lives
About the Author
Jacob Riis was a crusading journalist-photographer whose exposes of the living and working conditions of the New York City poor during the late nineteenth century inspired that generation of American journalists known as the Muckrakers. He was uncompromising in his commitment to his work, regarding mostrar mais journalism as a noble profession in an era when few others did. One of 16 children born to a part-time reporter in Ribe, Denmark, Riis emigrated to the United States as a young man and worked for a while as a carpenter. He got a job writing for the South Brooklyn News in 1874. For the next quarter of a century, he reported on "how the other half lives" for that paper, the New York Tribune (1877--88), and the New York Evening Sun (1888--99), documenting in prose and photograph the appalling slum life of New York's poor, the dreadful tenements in which they lived, the sweatshops where they and their children labored, the brutal crimes they committed and endured, and the police corruption that helped preserve these conditions. His harrowing portrayals of poverty and crime are classic works of photojournalism that influenced younger journalists and moved a future president, Theodore Roosevelt, to vow to clean up New York when he became head of the city's police board. Riis retired from active journalism toward the end of the century, becoming a popular lecturer and book writer. In The Making of an American (1901), a book still read today, he told the tale of his emigration and Americanization. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: 1904 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-5511)
Obras de Jacob A. Riis
Christmas Stories 3 cópias
Jacob A. Riis: Collected Works (Illustrated): The Battle With The Slum, The Children Of The Poor, Children Of The… (2018) 1 exemplar(es)
How the Other Half Lives & Muckraking & Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt & Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (2004) 1 exemplar(es)
Christmas Short Works Collection 2015 1 exemplar(es)
The Old Town 1 exemplar(es)
The Children of the Poor and Other Works by Jacob A. Riis (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) 1 exemplar(es)
The peril and preservation of the home: Being the William L. Bull lectures for the year 1903, 1 exemplar(es)
Jacob A. Riis : Beginn einer sozialkritischen Fotografie in den USA, mit weiteren Bildern von Lewis Hine und anderen 1 exemplar(es)
Poverty and tenement life in New York City, ca. 1890 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892–1900 (1997) — Contribuinte — 231 cópias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuinte — 93 cópias
The Newsboys' Lodging-House: or The Confessions of William James--A Novel (2003) — Artista da capa, algumas edições — 67 cópias
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) (2003) — Contribuinte — 45 cópias
The Second Christmas Megapack: 29 Modern and Classic Christmas Stories (2012) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Riis, Jacob August
- Data de nascimento
- 1849-05-03
- Data de falecimento
- 1914-05-26
- Local de enterro
- Riverside Cemetery, Barre, Massachusetts, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Denmark (birth)
USA - Local de nascimento
- Ribe, Denmark
- Local de falecimento
- Barre, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- Copenhagen, Denmark
New York, New York, USA
Barre, Massachusetts, USA - Ocupação
- carpenter
salesman
journalist
muckraker
documentary photographer
autobiographer (mostrar todas 8)
social reformer
humanitarian - Relacionamentos
- Roosevelt, Theodore (#1, friend)
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Ambleside Books (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 9
- Membros
- 1,812
- Popularidade
- #14,191
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 16
- ISBNs
- 172
- Idiomas
- 5
- Favorito
- 1