Riis, Jacob A. Jacob Riis. London and New York: Phaidon, 2001
Jacob Riis
Born: Ribe, Denmark, 3 May 1849
Died: Barre, MA, 26 May 1914
Nationality: Danish-American
Died: Barre, MA, 26 May 1914
Nationality: Danish-American
Background:
son of a school-teacher/editor
Studies:
self-taught
Career:
1870 – moves to US
1873 – works at New York News Association
1874 – hired as editor of South Brooklyn News
1878 – hired as police-reporter for the Tribune
1888 – begins photographing New York City slums to illustrate his reformist articles and lectures
1890 – publishes How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements
1898 –stops taking photographs
1902 – publishes The Battle with the Slum
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