Jacob August Riis fut un journaliste américain dont l'écriture se concentra sur les démunis de New York. Ses œuvres, façonnées par sa lecture précoce de Dickens et de J.F. Cooper au Danemark, témoignent de talents narratifs perfectionnés par des écrivains anglophones. L'approche de Riis se caractérisait par un œil avisé pour l'injustice sociale et un style narratif qui mettait en lumière les dures réalités des communautés marginalisées. Par son journalisme, il visait à susciter l'empathie et à impulser le changement social en exposant la vie de ceux qui sont souvent négligés.
Studies Among the Tenements of New York
A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the squalid living conditions of 'the other half', who might well have inhabited another country.
Jacob August Riis (1849-1914) was a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the less fortunate in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photographic essays. He helped with the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. As one of the first photographers to use flash, he is considered a pioneer in photography. His works include: How the Other Half Lives (1891), The Children of the Poor (1892), Out of Mulberry Street (1896), A Ten Years' War (1900), The Making of an American (1901), The Battle with the Slum (1902), Children of the Tenements (1902), The Peril and the Preservation of the Home (1903), Theodore Roosevelt: The Citizen (1904), The Old Town (1909), Hero Tales of the Far North (1910) and Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half (1914).
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This historical work is presented in large print by Megali, a publishing house dedicated to making literature accessible for individuals with impaired vision. The reproduction aims to preserve the original content while enhancing readability, ensuring that more readers can enjoy and engage with classic texts.
Studies Among the Tenements of New York - The Fully Illustrated Edition
The belief that every man's experience ought to be worth something to the community from which he drew it, no matter what that experience may be, so long as it was gleaned along the line of some decent, honest work, made me begin this book. With the result before him, the reader can judge for himself now whether or not I was right. Right or wrong, the many and exacting duties of a newspaper man's life would hardly have allowed me to bring it to an end but for frequent friendly lifts given me by willing hands. To the President of the Board of Health, Mr. Charles G. Wilson, and to Chief Inspector Byrnes of the Police Force I am indebted for much kindness. The patient friendship of Dr. Roger S. Tracy, the Registrar of Vital Statistics, has done for me what I never could have done for myself; for I know nothing of tables, statistics and percentages, while there is nothing about them that he does not know. Most of all, I owe in this, as in all things else, to the womanly sympathy and the loving companionship of my dear wife, ever my chief helper, my wisest counsellor, and my gentlest critic. J. A. R.