Jacob Riis

payment they are cheaply given can hardly provide a proper bed, and that they are needed to live in such tiny rooms with the largest of families. With progression to the new ara we can clearly see how a class society can be formed. This Muckraker, Jacob Riis, proves that he is a progressive because this response to the living quarters for the low class, is accurate to the industrial society. In the book titled The Jungle, Upton Sinclair…

centuries. Jacob Riis, and Dorothea Lange where two photographers that played a vital part in the evolution of photography at this time. Jacob Riis was born on May 3, 1849, in Denmark, and immigrated to the United States in 1870 on a ship. Upon his arrival in New York City, Riis struggled his way through various jobs. His jobs consisted of an ironworker, farmer, bricklayer, and salesman. All of these jobs gave him a very close look at the poor side of the American urban living. In 1873, Riis…

In the late nineteenth century, Jacob Riis, was considered a renowned social reformer. Riis was known for exposing corruption in America and unmasking the living conditions and faith of babies that came from slums. Riis documented that the majority of babies that were abandoned originated from poor households and that any type of maternal instincts was constrained by poverty. Riis words were impactful because unlike newspapers he was brutally honest. Newspapers tended to give mothers hope by…

Half Lives, by Jacob Riis. Jacob Riis was born in Denmark and grew up there. He emigrated to the United States in 1870 at the age of 21. Being like most young men of 21, he had high hopes of the future and excitement about what was to come. He held quite a few odd and undesirable jobs during the first few years in the U.S. These jobs and the way of life he led while looking for his niche in the world, opened Riis ' eyes to the poverty of the working class in the United States. Riis obtained a…

Jacob A. Riis’s informative book How The Other Half Lives overall summary is the exposing to readers the ignorance and disingenuous conditions endured in New York’s slums. He includes history about the tenements which belonged to the city’s wealthiest families and as industrialization increased it attracted many immigrants in the 19th century and the buildings were divided into overcrowded apartments for arrivals. Additionally, he mentions that cholera epidemics led people to desire reform.…

“The slum is the measure of civilization.” (Riis) Jacob August Riis, a photojournalist, and well-known social reformer was born in 1849 and lived to be sixty-five years old. Riis was born in Ribe, a rural part of Denmark and at the age of twenty-one immigrated to the America in the year of 1870. When Riis came to America he had forty dollars and one gold locket. Coming over with that little is the reason Riis experienced, first-hand, the struggles of poverty, suffrage, and so much more. With his…

During the 19th century, both Jacob Riis and Susan B. Anthony tried to change America for the better. Jacob Riis took photos of people, mostly immigrants, living in horrible conditions. Susan B. Anthony was a women’s rights activist fighting for women’s suffrage. Both individuals played a significant role in American history because they brought major problems into the light. Jacob Riis was a muckraker during the time of industrialization in America and he exposed the horrid conditions people…

In “How the other half lives” Photography’s speaks a lot just like ones action does. Jacob Riis writes about the living conditions of the tenement houses. Most people in these apartments were poor immigrants who were trying to survive. Riis, a photographer, captured the unhealthy, filthy, and horrible conditions not only through his words, but rather through his pictures. His pictures spoke for the people and the dirty conditions they had to live in. Riis’s journalism (muckrakers) and…

form of art. Photography was on the rise. Danish immigrant and New York City police reporter Jacob Riis took advantage of the camera and flashlight powder known as Blitzlichtpulver. Using this substance, Riis found he could create a harsh form of artificial light which would allow him to photograph in places never before seen by the average American. An avid voice for housing reform, Riis took this new…

In New York of 1870, various types of people lived differently in the big city. There were three types of living styles that were known as the upper, middle, and lower class. But regarding this the author, Jacob Riis, focused only on the hardships of the poor in his book How The Other Half Lives. Oftentimes poverty was seen as the fault of the poor. In many cases it was not, for they were not given many opportunities because of where they stood in the social rank of society. Ranks were…