Jacob Riis, who died 100 years ago this month ... the immigrant neighborhoods he knew all too well, Riis taught himself photography and began taking a camera with him on his nightly rounds.

He was heralded with pioneering a particularly stark and revealing brand of photojournalism, but Jacob Riis never even considered himself a photographer. Toiling in New York’s Lower East Side ...

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There are several admiring biographies and an exquisite volume, “Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen,” by Alexander Alland Sr., who helped find Riis’ negatives in the 1940s, reprinting ...

However, the Jacob Riis Museum, with its extensive modern ... including a type of photography that relied on a mini-explosion of extremely bright light that can be used in low light, pioneered ...

Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of New York's slums in his book, "How the Other Half Lives." He documented the poverty previously hidden in darkness using a ...

Jacob Riis, a writer and photographer who exposed poverty in late 19th century New York City, used crude tools to light up his subjects. He ignited magnesium powder with a pistol, and later 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, ...

Two friends, Victoria Cruz and Carlos Villacres, remember Osvaldo Gómez, known as Ms. Colombia, who was a fixture in Jacob Riis Park in Queens. She gave free legal advice to fellow Colombians.