in particular the photographer, reporter and social reformer Jacob Riis. Other exculpatory evidence surfaced only after the trial. Russell also recalled that the Herald received a letter from a ...

The exhibition Documentary Genealogies. Photography 1848-1917 explores, throughout seven rooms, the historical background of documentary photography between the revolutions of 1848 and 1917. In 1930, ...

While teaching the Progressive Era, I introduced Jacob Riis, a muckraker who used photography to expose injustice. After analyzing his work, students found modern images representing today’s ...

He was the official photographer for the Department of Bridges ... "He was a great chronicler of the city, in the tradition of Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Stieglitz and Berenice Abbott," says Mellins.

Photos from the late 19th century and early ... The cramped conditions also led to many fires in major cities. Jacob Riis' "How The Other Half Lives," a photojournalism book documenting the ...

An award-winning 35-year-old filmmaker drowned surfing after his board apparently got tangled in wooden jetties along ...

It was the muckraker Jacob Riis who famously wrote about how the Lower East Side’s other half lived. Riis was given his due when, in 1949, a public housing complex by Walker & Gillette was named ...

A drowning surfer who died after being carried out of the ocean by good Samaritans at Queens’ Jacob Riis Park was a rising documentary filmmaker whose first feature is about to have its US premiere.

A Queens surfer died after he was carried out of the ocean by good Samaritans at the beach in Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways, the Daily News has learned. Police responding to a 911 call about 12 ...

A drowning surfer who died after being carried out of the ocean by good Samaritans at Queens’ Jacob Riis Park was a rising documentary filmmaker whose first feature is about to have its US premiere.