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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

An award-winning filmmaker drowned at Jacob Riis Park in Queens last week after his surfboard apparently got tangled in a decrepit wooden jetty, a deadly obstruction residents have begged the ...

Zulay Velazquez has lived at the Jacob Riis NYCHA development in the East Village for more than 40 years. Velazquez, along with the roughly 3,600 other residents, has a big decision — to remain ...

drowned surfing April 12 after his board apparently got tangled in wooden jetties along notoriously treacherous waters at Jacob Riis Park in Queens. Nearby residents have been demanding for years ...