Jacob Riis was born on May 3, 1849, in Ribe, Denmark
Jacob had a happy childhood, but experienced tragedy at the age of eleven when his younger brother, Theodor, drowned. He never forgot his mother's pain and grief from the tragedy.
At only the young age of eleven or twelve, Riis donated all the money he had and gave it to a poor Ribe family living in a cluttered, messy house with little to show of ownership or possessions. The tenants took the money and obliged; when he told his mother, she also made an effort to help the poor family’s situation.
Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870 crossing the ocean in a steamboat. All he carried with him was $40 and a heirloom locket from a girl he loved.
Upon arriving in New York City, Riis …show more content…
After conducting his own research, Riis discovered the depth of the area’s despair well represented in the fact that in certain tenement buildings the infant death rate was ten percent.
Lewis Hine
New York City schoolteacher and photographer
Hine defined a good photograph as "a reproduction of impressions made upon the photographer which he desires to repeat to others." Because he realized his photographs were subjective, he described his work as “photo-interpretation."
Hine felt so adamant about the abuse of children forced to be put in the workplace that he quit his job as an educator and became an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.
He would photograph children in coal mines, in meatpacking houses, in textile mills, and in canneries. His photos depict children working in the streets as shoe shiners, newsboys, and hawkers.
Often would have to trick his way into factories to take the photographs that factory managers did not want the public to see because of the endangerment it could cause to their
Jacob had a happy childhood, but experienced tragedy at the age of eleven when his younger brother, Theodor, drowned. He never forgot his mother's pain and grief from the tragedy.
At only the young age of eleven or twelve, Riis donated all the money he had and gave it to a poor Ribe family living in a cluttered, messy house with little to show of ownership or possessions. The tenants took the money and obliged; when he told his mother, she also made an effort to help the poor family’s situation.
Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870 crossing the ocean in a steamboat. All he carried with him was $40 and a heirloom locket from a girl he loved.
Upon arriving in New York City, Riis …show more content…
After conducting his own research, Riis discovered the depth of the area’s despair well represented in the fact that in certain tenement buildings the infant death rate was ten percent.
Lewis Hine
New York City schoolteacher and photographer
Hine defined a good photograph as "a reproduction of impressions made upon the photographer which he desires to repeat to others." Because he realized his photographs were subjective, he described his work as “photo-interpretation."
Hine felt so adamant about the abuse of children forced to be put in the workplace that he quit his job as an educator and became an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.
He would photograph children in coal mines, in meatpacking houses, in textile mills, and in canneries. His photos depict children working in the streets as shoe shiners, newsboys, and hawkers.
Often would have to trick his way into factories to take the photographs that factory managers did not want the public to see because of the endangerment it could cause to their